Jack Russell, 25th Baron de Clifford

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Baron de Clifford (before 1906)

Jack Southwell Russell, 25th Baron de Clifford (2 July 1884 – 1 September 1909) was a British army officer and nobleman.

Family and succession

He was the only son of Edward Southwell Russell, 24th Baron de Clifford, and Hilda Balfour, and succeeded to the barony on the death of his father on 6 April 1894.

Military career

Lord de Clifford was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Shropshire Imperial Yeomanry on 19 March 1902.[1]

Marriage and death

He married the actress Evelyn Victoria Anne Chandler, known as Eva Carrington, on 16 February 1906 at the St. Pancras Registry Office. [1]

He died on 1 September 1909 aged 25, following a car accident at Small Dole, Bramber, Sussex, England, and was succeeded by his son Edward Southwell Russell.

References

  1. ^ "No. 27417". The London Gazette. 18 March 1902. p. 1888.
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron de Clifford
1894–1909
Succeeded by