Clare Nancy Russell

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Baroness of Ballindalloch
CVO
Born
Clare Macpherson-Grant Russell

(1944-08-04) 4 August 1944 (age 80)
OccupationLandowner
TitleLady Ballindalloch
SpouseMr Oliver Henry Russell
Children3

Clare Nancy Russell, Lady Ballindalloch CVO (born 4 August 1944) prefers to be known as Mrs Clare Russell is a Scottish noble landowner, the Lady Laird of Ballindalloch Castle on Speyside and was Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire from 2002 until 2019. [1]

She is the only daughter of Major Sir Ewan George Macpherson-Grant, 6th and last Baronet of Ballindalloch (died 1983) and his wife Evelyn Nancy Stopford Dickin. [2]

She married Oliver Henry Russell in 1967, the second son of Admiral Hon. Sir Guy Russell and his wife Hon. Helen Elizabeth Blades, daughter of Rowland Blades, 1st Baron Ebbisham. They have three §children: Guy Ewan (born 1968) who assumed the surname of Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch; Edward Oliver (born 1970); and Lucy Clare Nancy (born 1972). [3]

Upon the death of her father in 1983, Russell inherited Ballindalloch Castle and its estate. She has been Chair of Queen Mary's Clothing Guild (Scotland) since 1986 and has served on the main board of the Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) for six years. She has also been involved with the Moray Health Council, the National Trust for Scotland, and the Scotland Garden Scheme. [1]

In 1991, she was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for Banffshire, becoming Vice Lord Lieutenant in 1998. She succeeded J.A.S. McPherson as Lord Lieutenant in 2002, becoming Banffshire's first lady Lord Lieutenant. Since being appointed Russell has been a champion of the county (whose administrative area was abolished in 1975). She led a campaign to have road signs marking the historic county's boundaries reinstated in 2008. [4]

As Clare Macpherson-Grant Russell, she has published two cookery books, "I Love Food" and "I Love Food 2". [5]

Russell was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for her services as lord-lieutenant. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Lord-Lieutenant for the Area of Banffshire". Press Release from Number 10 Downing Street. 20 November 2002. Archived from the original on 12 November 2009. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
  2. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage 1959. London: Burke's Peerage, 1959.
  3. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2008. London: Debrett, 2008.
  4. "What's in a name?". Banffshire Journal. 29 April 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. "I Love Food by Claire Macpherson-Grant Russell". Ballindalloch Castle. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  6. "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B4.
Honorary titles
Preceded by
James Alexander Strachan McPherson
Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire
20022019
Succeeded by
Christopher Andrew Crawford Simpson
Baronage of Scotland
Preceded by
Major Sir Ewan Macpherson-Grant, Bt
(father)
Baroness of Ballindalloch
1983–present
Succeeded by
incumbent