Lewis Clifford, 12th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

Lewis Joseph Hugh Clifford, 12th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (7 February 1889 – 27 August 1964) was an Australian/British peer. He inherited his title from his older brother, Charles Oswald Hugh Clifford, who died without male issue on 1 February 1962. As he died a little over two years later, he never spoke in the House of Lords.^[1]

His younger brother was the colonial administrator, Sir Bede Clifford.

Clifford was born in New Zealand and educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, Australia.^[2] Clifford's ancestors were recusants who cherished the relics of saints and martyrs. Lewis Clifford donated a relic of Saint Edmund of Abingdon, which had been rescued from Pontigny Abbey in France in 1849, to Sacred Heart Church in Croydon in Melbourne.^[3] Clifford lived at Yarra Brae in Wonga Park in Victoria which was the site of the Australia's first Pan-Pacific Scout Jamboree in 1948.^[4] He retired to the United Kingdom.^[5]