John Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford

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John Edward Southwell Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford[1] (8 June 1928 – 2 November 2018) was Lord de Clifford in the Peerage of England.

Family[]

Lord de Clifford was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford (1907–1982) and Dorothy Evelyn (Meyrick).

Lord de Clifford married Bridget Jennifer Robertson, daughter of Duncan Robertson and Joyce Williams-Wynn, on 27 June 1959.[1] They had no children.

Education[]

Lord de Clifford received his early education at Eton College, Windsor. He was later educated at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.[1]

Portraits exist from this period, from 1939 and 1948, now held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[2]

Succession[]

He became the 27th Lord de Clifford on 3 January 1982.[1]

He died on 2 November 2018 at the age of 90.[3] As he had no children, his heir was his nephew, (b. 1966).

References[]

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Russell
Baron de Clifford
1982–2018
Succeeded by
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