Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (18 January 1863 – 5 July 1957) was a British
peer.
Biography
Trefusis was the eldest son of the
20th Baron Clinton and his wife, Harriet. Educated at
Oxford
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he played polo with the University team and won the
Varsity Match
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against Cambridge in 1883. On 1 June 1886, he married Lady Jane McDonnell (15 June 1863 – 27 August 1953) (a daughter of the
5th Earl of Antrim and his second cousin once-removed) and they had two daughters:
*Harriet (14 November 1887 – 15 March 1958), married Major Henry Nevile Fane (1883 – 2 August 1947). They had seven children.
*Fenella (19 August 1889 – 19 July 1966), married
John Herbert Bowes-Lyon. They had five children.
From 1898 until he succeeded to his father's title in 1904, Trefusis was
Convener
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of
Kincardineshire
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County Council. In 1911, Lord Clinton was admitted to the
Duchy of Cornwall
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Council and was appointed the duchy's Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1913 and
Lord Warden of the Stannaries
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in 1921. From 1918 to 1919, he was Joint
, Chairman of the
Forestry Commission
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from 1927 to 1929, and a director of the
Southern Railway.
Lord Clinton had also been admitted to the
Privy Council in 1927 and on his retirement in 1933, he was appointed a
GCVO
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.
Upon Lord Clinton's death in 1957, his title became
abeyant
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between his two daughters until it was called out of abeyance for his great-grandson (by Harriet), Gerard Fane-Trefusis, 22nd Baron Clinton, in 1965.
References
Sources
Burke's Peerage & Gentry
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Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
1863 births
1957 deaths
21
Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers