Charles Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton

Charles Rudolph Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton (9 November 1791 – 10 April 1866), styled The Honourable Charles Trefusis between 1794 and 1832, was a British peer and Tory politician.

Background and education

Clinton was the second son of Robert Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton, and Albertina Marianna, daughter of John Gaulis. He was educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford.

Political career

Clinton was elected Member of Parliament for Callington in 1813, a seat he held until 1818. Between 1819 and 1833 he was a Commissioner of Excise. In 1832 he succeeded his elder brother in the barony and entered the House of Lords.

Marriage & progeny

Lord Clinton married in 1831 Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Kerr, who died in March 1871, aged 63, daughter of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. They had four sons and five daughters, including:

• Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton, his eldest son and heir.
• Mark George Kerr Trefusis (1836–1907), his second son, who in 1852 adopted by royal licence the surname and arms of Rolle following his inheritance of a life-interest in the estate of his maternal uncle John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (1756–1842), which made him the largest land-owner in Devon. The Rolle estate descended from him to his nephew Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863–1957).

Death

He died in April 1866, aged 74, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton.