John Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford

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, Miles Edward Southwell Russell (b. 1966).

References

1. John Edward Southwell Russell, 27th Lord de Clifford, ref:84190, www.ThePeerage.com, updated 2012-12-14, accessed 2017-02-20
2. John Edward Southwell Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford (1928-), Landowner, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1939, accessed 20 February 2017
3. de Clifford

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