| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord de Clifford | |
| Birth Name: | Miles Edward Southwell Russell |
| Birth Date: | 7 August 1966 |
| Party: | Crossbench |
| Term Start: | 26 September 2023 |
| Relatives: | John Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford (uncle) Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford (grandfather) |
Miles Edward Southwell Russell, 28th Baron de Clifford (born 7 August 1966) is a British hereditary peer, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
Russell was initially an accountant in the agricultural team of Deloitte Touche Accountants,[1] undertaking three years of farm accountancy during his training,[2] before moving to manage the finances of the rural clients and businesses at a Cotswold-based firmed of Chartered Surveyors.[3]
He became Practice Manager at the Wiltshire-based George Veterinary Group in April 2008, and joined the Board of Directors of the Veterinary Management Group in 2016. He became the Director of Finance for the Veterinary Management Group in 2019, and was elected the Group's president for 2023–24 at its annual conference, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He succeeded to his family title in 2018, on the death of his uncle, John Russell, 27th Baron de Clifford, and was elected to the House of Lords in a Crossbencher by-election in September 2023, taking the room of Raymond, Lord Hylton, who retired earlier that year.[4]
According to his candidature statement, he has expertise in animal welfare, foodproduction, and safety, leadership development, and business management.[5]
De Clifford has stated that he has dyslexia.