Stefan Adam Zamoyski

Who was Stefan Adam Zamoyski?

Count Stefan Adam Zamoyski was a Polish magnate, landowner.

Stefan had a degree of Doctor of Law. He was owner of Wysock estates. Lt.-Col. Count Stefan Zamoyski served as an aide-de-camp to Polish Prime Minister-in-exile Wladislaw Sikorski in London. In December 1940, Lt.-Col. Zamoyski wrote to the head of RAF Bomber Command, requesting that the German concentration camp Auschwitz be bombed to allow the Polish political prisoners there at the time to escape; the RAF declined to act. Awarded with the Virtuti Militari Order.

Following World War II, Count Zamoyski remained in Britain. He was working at the Jockey Club when he came into contact with Captain Kazimierz Bobinski and working together, they finished Bobinski's work in compiling the famous Bobinski-Zamoyski Family Tables of Racehorses, published in 1954.

He married Elżbieta Czartoryska on 26 June 1929 in Gołuchów. They have three children:

Maria Helena Zamoyska

Zdzisław Klemens Zamoyski

Adam Stefan Zamoyski