Hugh Clifford
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Sir Hugh Charles Clifford GCMG GBE |
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| 24th Governor of British Ceylon | |
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In office 30 November 1925 – June 1927 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Preceded by | Edward Bruce Alexander |
| Succeeded by | Arthur George Murchison Fletcher |
| Acting Governor of British Ceylon | |
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In office 11 July 1907 – 24 August 1907 |
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| Monarch | Edward VII |
| Preceded by | Henry Arthur Blake |
| Succeeded by | Henry Edward McCallum |
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5 March 1866 Roehampton, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 18 December 1941 (aged 75) Roehampton, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Minna à Beckett, m. 15 April 1896, three children Elizabeth de la Pasture, m. 24 September 1910, no children |
| Religion | Catholic |
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, GCMG GBE (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator.
Clifford was born in Roehampton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford and his wife Josephine Elizabeth, née Anstice; his grandfather was Hugh Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.
Clifford married Minna à Beckett, daughter of Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, on 15 April 1896, and they had one son and two daughters: Hugh Gilbert Francis Clifford, Mary Agnes Philippa and Monica Elizabeth Mary. Minna Clifford died on 14 January 1907.
On 24 September 1910 Hugh Clifford remarried, to Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham,CBE, daughter of Edward Bonham of Bramling, Kent, a British consul. A Catholic, she was the widow of Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture of Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire. Clifford thus became stepfather to E. M. Delafield, author of the Provincial Lady series.
Hugh Clifford intended to follow his father Henry Hugh Clifford, a distinguished British Army general, into the military but later decided to join the civil service in the Straits Settlements, with the assistance of his relative Sir Frederick Weld, the then Governor of the Straits Settlements and also the British High Commissioner in Malaya. He was later transferred to the British Protectorate of the Federated Malay States. Clifford arrived in Malaya in 1883, aged 17.
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