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Lord Clinton [Obituary]
Trans. Devon Assoc., vol. XXXVI, (1904), p. 35.
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J. Brooking-Rowe (Ed.)
Prepared by Michael Steer
The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1904 Teignmouth meeting. The peerage of Baron Clinton was created in 1298 for Sir John de Clinton, 1st Baron Clinton, a knight who had served in the Scottish and French wars. It was created by writ, which means that it can descend through both male and female lines. It is thus one of the most ancient English titles still in existence. The 20th Baron Clinton (1834–1904). served as Under-Secretary of State for India from 1867 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Devonshire. In 1867 Baron Clinton assumed by Royal licence the additional surnames of Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes, which were those of his father-in-law. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers
Lord Clinton. Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis (afterwards Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis) Lord Clinton, twentieth baron, was born at Rome 2nd March, 1834, the son of Charles Rudolph, the nineteenth Lord Clinton. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, having matriculated 3rd June, 1852; B.A., 1856; 1st Class in Law and Modem History, and M.A., 1859. He was returned M.P. for North Devon in 1857, and sat for the same constituency until 1866. He was Under Secretary of State for India from July, 1867 to December, 1868, and a paid Charity Commissioner from 1874 to 1880. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry from 1867 to 1885, was chairman of Quarter Sessions from 1863 to 1899, and was the first chairman of the County Council, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Devon in 1887. He became a member of this Association in 1890, when he accepted the office of President at the Barnstaple meeting, and delivered a brilliant address. In all county movements he took the lead, and his name will go down as that of a nobleman who upheld the fair fame of the county of Devon and ever sought its advancement. He was in failing health for some months before his lamented death, which took place at Cairo on the 29th March, 1904.