Clare Nancy Russell, Lady Ballindalloch CVO (born 4 August 1944) prefers to be known as Mrs Clare Russell is a Scottish noble landowner, the Lady Laird of Ballindalloch Castle on Speyside and was Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire from 2002 until 2019.
[1] She is the only daughter of Major Sir Ewan George Macpherson-Grant, 6th and last Baronet of Ballindalloch (died 1983) and his wife Evelyn Nancy Stopford Dickin.
[3] Upon the death of her father in 1983, Russell inherited Ballindalloch Castle and its estate.
She led a campaign to have road signs marking the historic county's boundaries reinstated in 2008.
[5] Russell was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for her services as lord-lieutenant.