Baron Donington

Born Charles Frederick Clifton,[2] he was the widower of Edith Mary Abney-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun.

They were both succeeded by their eldest son Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun and 2nd Baron Donington.

The Scottish earldom was inherited by his niece Edith, daughter of his second brother the Hon.

The barony of Donington, which could only be inherited by male heirs, passed to his third brother Gilbert Theophilus, who became the third Baron.

Thomas Joseph Clifton, father of the first Baron, was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1835 and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the county.