William Clive Hussey

Major William Clive Hussey, (1858 – 20 June 1929 ) was a British Army officer who was bailiff of The Royal Parks from 1902 to 1923.

Biography Hussey was born in 1858, the second son of Edward Hussey (1807–1894), by his wife Honourable Henrietta Sarah Windsor-Clive (1820–1899). His father inherited Scotney Castle, in Lamberhurst, Kent, built the ′New′ Scotney Castle on the grounds, and was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Kent. His mother was the elder daughter of Hon. Robert Clive (1789–1854), a Member of Parliament (UK) for the Conservative Party, and himself the younger son of the 1st Earl of Powis. Clive had married Hon. Harriet Windsor (1797–1869), who inherited the Plymouth estate of her brother the 6th Earl of Plymouth and was recognized as the 13th Baroness Windsor when that title was called out of abeyance in 1855. Among his siblings were Brigadier-General Arthur Herbert Hussey (1863–1923) and Mildred Harriet Hussey (1863–1952), wife of Sir Ralph William Anstruther, 6th Baronet.

Hussey grew up at Scotney Castle, and was educated at Eton and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

Shortly before his retirement as bailiff, he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1923.

Family Hussey married, in 1898, Mary Anne Herbert (d.1942), daughter of Very Rev. Hon. George Herbert (1825–1894), a son of the 2nd Earl of Powis, by his wife Elizabeth Beatrice Sykes (d.1883), daughter of Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet. They had one son and one daughter, Christopher Edward Clive Hussey (1899–1970) Barbara Winifred Hussey (b.1904)