Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton

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The Lord Clinton
Personal details
Born(1863-01-18)18 January 1863
Died5 July 1957(1957-07-05) (aged 94)
Spouse
Jane McDonnell
(m. 1886;died 1953)
Children2
Parent
Relatives Jack Tre (brother)
Mark Rolle (uncle)
Charles Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton (grandfather)
Education University of Oxford

Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton GCVO PC (18 January 1863 5 July 1957) was a British peer.

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Biography

Trefusis was the eldest son of the 20th Baron Clinton and his wife, Harriet. Educated at Oxford he played polo with the University team and won the Varsity Match against Cambridge in 1883. [1] 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:

From 1898 until he succeeded to his father's title in 1904, Trefusis was Convener of Kincardineshire County Council. In 1911, Lord Clinton was admitted to the Duchy of Cornwall Council and was appointed the duchy's Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1913 and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in 1921. From 1918 to 1919, he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Chairman of the Forestry Commission from 1927 to 1929, and a director of the Southern Railway. [2] Lord Clinton had also been admitted to the Privy Council in 1927 and on his retirement in 1933, he was appointed a GCVO.

Upon Lord Clinton's death in 1957, his title became abeyant 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.

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References

  1. "Polo. Oxford v. Cambridge". The Times. 18 June 1883.
  2. Jones, Kevin P. "Biographies of chairmen, managers & other senior railway officers". steamindex.com. Clinton, Lord. Retrieved 16 March 2009.

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Court offices
Preceded by Keeper of the Privy Seal of the Duchy of Cornwall
1913 1933
Succeeded by
Preceded by Lord Warden of the Stannaries
1921 1933
Political offices
Preceded by Joint Parliamentary Secretary
to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries

1918 1919
With: Sir Richard Winfrey
Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Chairman of the
Forestry Commission

1927–1929
Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Clinton
1904 1957
In abeyance
Title next held by
Gerald Fane-Trefusis