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Sir Thomas Aston Clifford-Constable, 2nd Baronet (3 May 1807 – 22 December 1870) was a British landowner and Member of Parliament.
He was born the only son of
He was born the only son of Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford-Constable, 1st Baronet
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
of Tixall, Staffordshire who he succeeded in 1823. 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
Tixall Gatehouse is a 16th-century gatehouse situated at Tixall, near Stafford, Staffordshire and is all that remains of Tixall Hall which was demolished in 1927. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed building. Tixall was used as a prison for Mary, ...
, the family seat, but also Burton Constable Hall
Burton Constable Hall is a large Elizabethan 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 by Capability Brown ...
and an estate at Wycliffe, County Durham
Wycliffe is a village on the south bank of the River Tees in the North East of England, situated a short distance to the east of Barnard Castle. Wycliffe is in the civil parish of Wycliffe with Thorpe.
It is located within the historic boundar ...
. He moved the family seat to Burton Constable and sold Tixall Hall to Earl Talbot in 1835.
He represented the rotten borough of Hedon as Member of Parliament from 1830 to 1832 and was appointed high Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1840–41.
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 Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People from Holderness