Lewis Joseph Hugh Clifford, 12th
Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (7 February 1889 – 27 August 1964) was an Australian/British peer. He inherited his title from his older brother, Charles Oswald Hugh Clifford, who died without male issue on 1 February 1962. As he died a little over two years later, he never spoke in the House of Lords.
His younger brother was the colonial administrator,
Sir Bede Clifford.
Clifford was born in
New Zealand
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and educated at
Xavier College
Xavier College is a Roman Catholic, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, with its main campus located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Classes started in 1878.
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in Melbourne, Australia. Clifford's ancestors were
recusants
Recusancy (from la, recusare, translation=to refuse) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign ...
who cherished the
relics of saints and
martyr
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s. Lewis Clifford donated a relic of
Saint Edmund of Abingdon, which had been rescued from
Pontigny Abbey
Pontigny Abbey (french: Abbaye de Pontigny), the church of which in recent decades has also been the cathedral of the Mission de France, otherwise the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (french: Cathédrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l’Assompt ...
in France in 1849, to Sacred Heart Church in Croydon in Melbourne. Clifford lived at Yarra Brae in Wonga Park in Victoria which was the site of the Australia's first Pan Pacific Scout Jamboree in 1948. He retired to the United Kingdom.
Family and children
He married Amy Webster and they had three children:
# Hon. Rosamund Ann Clifford
#
Colonel Lewis Hugh Clifford, 13th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
# Hon. Mary Clifford
Following his first wife's death on 15 January 1926, Clifford married Mary Elizabeth Knox, younger daughter of
Sir Adrian Knox who served as the second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
References
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1889 births
1964 deaths
12
People educated at Xavier College