Charles Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

Charles Hugh Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh JP DL (27 July 1819 – 5 August 1880) was a British peer.

Early life Portrait of his mother, Mary Lucy Weld, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Weld, by Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, 1819. Clifford was born on 27 July 1819 in London. He was the son of Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh and Mary Lucy Weld. Among his siblings were Hon. Eleonora Mary Clifford (who became a Roman Catholic nun of Sacré Coeur), and the Hon. Eleanor Mary Arundell (a daughter of the 8th Baron Arundell). His maternal grandparents were Cardinal Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle, and the former Lucy (née Clifford). Through his brother Henry, he was an uncle of Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, and Brig.-Gen. Henry Frederick Hugh Clifford. The grounds featured what were possibly the earliest plantings of the European White Elm, Ulmus laevis, in the UK.

Lord Clifford was a Justice of the Peace for Devonshire and Somerset as well as a Deputy Lieutenant of Devonshire. Together, they were the parents of:

Hon. Bertha Mary Agnes Clifford (b. 1848), who married Brodie Manuel de Zulueta, 3rd Count of Torre Díaz, son of Pedro José de Zulueta, 2nd Count of Torre Díaz, in 1892. who served as aide-de-camp to King Edward VII in 1901; he married Mabel Anne Towneley, daughter of Lt.-Col. John Towneley, MP for Beverley, in 1890. Hon. Edmund Charles Hugh Clifford (1857–1867), who died young. who married Catherine Mary Bassett, daughter of R. Bassett, in 1886. After her death, he married May Knox, a daughter of Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. After her death, he married his former housekeeper, Grace Muriel St. Clair-Munro, a daughter of W. St. Clair-Munro, in 1943. Hon. Cecilia Mary Clifford (1860–1919), who married Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, son of Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh, in 1884. After a funeral service conducted by the Roman Catholic Bishops of Plymouth and Clifton (his younger brother William), he was buried in the family vault of the private chapel at Ugbrooke. Upon his death, he was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Lewis. When Lewis died in 1916, he was succeeded by another of the 8th Baron's sons, William. His widow died in 1891 at 69 Onslow Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington.