Hugh Charles Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (29 May 1790 – 28 February 1858) was a British peer. He inherited the title from his father on 29 April 1831. Clifford, eldest son of Charles Clifford, 6th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and Eleanor Mary Arundell, daughter of Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour, was born in 1790. He was educated at the Roman Catholic college of Stonyhurst, and in 1814 attended Cardinal Consalvi to the Congress of Vienna. He served as a volunteer through a large portion of the Peninsular campaigns. On succeeding to his father's estates in 1831 he took his seat in the House of Lords. He gave his general support to the ministry of Lord Grey and afterwards of Lord Melbourne, but seldom took part in the debates except on questions connected with Roman Catholicism. In his later years he lived chiefly in Italy, where he had a house near Tivoli. He died at Rome on 28 February 1858 from an injury. By his wife, Mary Lucy, the only daughter of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle, Dorsetshire, and his wife, Lucy (née Clifford; died 1815), he left two daughters and four sons. Their eldest son, Charles Hugh, became the 8th Baron Clifford. Clifford was the author of a Letter to Edmund Burke on the Repeal of the Corn Laws (1824); Letters addressed to Lord Alvanley on his pamphlet, "The State of Ireland considered" (1841) and Letters to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle on the East Indian Question, as well as several published speeches. Family and children On 8 February 1819, he married Mary Lucy Weld; the couple had six sons and two daughters: Charles Hugh Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 1819 – 1880 Hon. Thomas Hugh Clifford, born 1822 – died 1833 Rt. Rev. William Hugh Joseph Clifford, born 24 December 1823 – died 14 August 1893; buried at Prior Park, Clifton; 2nd Bishop of Clifton from 29 January 1857; ordained as bishop on 15 February 1857; died in office Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, born 1826 – died 12 April 1883, Ugbrooke. He was awarded the Victoria Cross. On 21 March 1857, he married Josephine Anstice (died 15 January 1913); the couple had three sons and five daughters: Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, born 1866 – died 18 December 1941. On 15 April 1896, he married firstly, to Minna à Beckett (died 1907); the couple