Hugh Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

Who was Hugh Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh?

Hugh Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh was baptized on 21 December 1663 in Ugbrooke and died on 12 October 1730 in Cannington, Somerset, England. Though the 7th child and 2nd son, he was the eldest living son when his father died. He succeeded his father in the barony on his father's death in 1673.

In 1685 he married Anne Preston, who died in July 1734 in Ugbrooke and was buried on 10 July 1734. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, 3rd Baronet and Mary Molyneux, daughter of 3rd Viscount Molyneux and heiress of Quernmore Park.

They had nine sons and six daughters. Their children were:

Hon. Francis Clifford

Hon. Thomas Clifford, buried 9 March 1719 in Cannington, Somerset. He married, as her first husband, on 22 December 1713 Charlotte Maria Livingston, 3rd Countess of Newburgh. Her second husband was Charles Radclyffe. They had two daughters:

Anne Clifford; married first, on 22 December 1739 at Saint Sulpice in Paris, John Joseph Mahony, 2nd Count of Mahony, by whom she had one daughter; married second, on 13 April 1773, Don Carlo Severino.

Frances Clifford, died in Ugbrooke, buried at Chudleigh Church on 7 July 1771.