Thomas Henry Clifton (3 March 1845 – 31 March 1880) was a Conservative Party politician in the

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Early life

Clifton was born on 3 March 1845 into a prestigious Lancashire family.Pine, L. G.. ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition.''

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: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952. p. 470. He was the only son of

John Talbot Clifton John Talbot Clifton (1 December 1868 – 23 March 1928), known as Talbot Clifton, was an English landowner and traveller. He was born the son of Thomas Henry Clifton of Lytham Hall, Lancashire and his wife Madeline Agnew and was educated at Eton ...

and the Lady Eleanor Cecily Lowther. His father, who succeeded Thomas' grandfather to the Lytham Hall and estate in 1851, was a Member of Parliament for

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between 1844 and 1847 and died in

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in 1882, two years after his death. His maternal grandparents were the former Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard (a daughter of

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) and Col. Hon.

Henry Cecil Lowther Colonel Henry Cecil Lowther, DL, JP (27 July 1790 – 6 December 1867) was an English Conservative politician and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1843. His long service in the House of Commons saw him beco ...

of Barleythorpe Hall, MP for

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(the second son of

William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, KG (29 December 175719 March 1844), also known as Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Little Preston, from 1788 to 1802, and William Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lowther, from 1802 to 1807, was a British Tory pol ...

). His paternal grandparents were Hatty (

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Treves) Clifton and Thomas Joseph Clifton.

Career

Clifton followed his father into politics in 1874 when he was elected Conservative MP for

at a

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but died shortly before the next general election in 1880. During his life, Clifton was also a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire, a Lieutenant in the

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, and a Lieutenant of the Lancashire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Personal life

On 7 February 1867, he married Madeline Agnew at

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in London. Madeline was one of thirteen children born to the former Lady Mary Arabella Louisa Noel (a daughter of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough) and

Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet Sir Andrew Agnew, 8th Baronet Deputy Lieutenant, DL (2 January 1818 – 25 March 1892) was a Scottish politician and baronet. Early life Agnew was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 2 January 1818 into the Scottish Lowlands Clan Agnew.George Edward ...

, MP for

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. Together they had seven children, including:Townend, Peter. ''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 18th edition. 3 volumes.''

: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1965-1972. p. 190. * Madeline Edith Clifton (1867–1946), who married her cousin Gerard Cecil Noel (1864–1925), a son of Gerard Noel, MP for

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, and Lady Augusta Mary (the second daughter of Col. Hon.

). He was also the nephew of

Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale (27 March 1818 – 15 August 1876) was a British nobleman and Conservative politician. Early life Lowther was born on 27 March 1818. He was the eldest son of Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther and Lady Lucy Sherard ...

and a grandson of Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough. *

(1868–1928), a noted traveller who married Violet Mary, the daughter of William Nelthorpe Beauclerk and granddaughter of the

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in 1907. * Cuthbert Clifton (1870–1900), who fought in the

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and who died, unmarried, from the effects of sunstroke received in

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. * Constance Gertrude Cecil Clifton (1871–1954), who married Capt. Hon. James Frederick Cumming-Bruce, a son of

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and Lady Elma Bruce (a daughter of

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), in 1891. After his death, she married, secondly, Brig.-Gen. Edward Boustead Cuthbertson, a son of Thomas Cuthbertson, in 1910. She served as

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to Princess Helena (the third daughter and fifth child of

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and

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). * Harry Arthur Clifton (1874–1947), a Lt.-Col. who fought in the Boer War,

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and was commander of the

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; he married Gladys Evans, daughter of Sir Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans, in 1903. * Frances Victoria Clifton (1876–1960), who married her cousin,

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, son of

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and Mary Alma Victoria Agnew. * Charles Caryl Clifton (1877–1932), a Lt. in the

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who fought in the Mashonaland Campaign, the Boer War, and World War I; he died unmarried. Clifton died on 31 March 1880. He was buried at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clifton, Thomas Henry 1845 births 1880 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880