Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 2nd Baronet (3 May 1807 – 22 December 1870) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament. Burton Constable Hall1

Life

He was born in 1807. He was the only son of Mary Macdonald and Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford-Constable, 1st Baronet of Tixall, Staffordshire who he succeeded in 1823. His elder sister was the diarist Mary Barbara Clifford. The family had descended from the Barons Clifford and had adopted the Constable name on inheriting the Burton Constable estate near Hull. On his coming of age in 1828 Thomas inherited not only Tixall Hall, the family seat, but also

Burton Constable Hall Burton Constable Hall is a large Elizabethan English country house, country house in England, with 18th- and 19th-century interiors and a fine 18th-century cabinet of curiosities. The hall, a Grade I listed building, is set in a park designed b ...

and an estate at

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. He moved the family seat to Burton Constable and sold Tixall Hall to Earl Talbot in 1835. He represented the

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as Member of Parliament from 1830 to 1832 and was appointed

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for 1840–41. He was commissioned as a

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in the disembodied North York Light Infantry Militia in 1834.Major Robert Bell Turton, ''The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment)'', Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, Appendix S. He died a wealthy man in December 1870. He had married twice: firstly Marianne, the daughter of Charles Joseph Chichester of Calverleigh Court, Devon, with whom he had a son and secondly Rosina, the daughter of Charles Brandon. He was succeeded by his only son Frederick Augustus Talbot Constable (1828–94).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clifford-Constable, Thomas Aston 1807 births 1870 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 High sheriffs of Yorkshire North York Militia officers Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People from Holderness