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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

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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

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

Marriage and death

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He married the actress Evelyn Victoria Anne Chandler, known as Eva Carrington, on 16 February 1906 at the St. Pancras Registry Office.[2]

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

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