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  1. Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (28 February 1592 – 11 December 1643) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622. He was created a baron in 1628 and succeeded to the title Earl of Cumberland in 1641.

  2. The title of Earl of Cumberland was created in the Peerage of England in 1525 for the 11th Baron de Clifford. It became extinct in 1643. The dukedom of Cumberland was created the following year. The subsidiary title of the first three earls was Baron de Clifford. The last earl was created Baron Clifford before he became earl, in 1628.

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    b. 28 Feb. 1592, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Francis Clifford* and Grisell, da. of Thomas Hughes of Uxbridge, Mdx.1 educ. Well g.s., Yorks.; Christ Church, Oxf. 1607, BA 1609; travelled abroad (France, Low Countries) 1610-12; academy, Paris 1611.2 m. 25 July 1610 (with £6,000), Frances (d. 14 Feb. 1644), da. of Robert Cecil†, 1st earl of Salisbury, ld. ...

    Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1614-d.;8 j.p. Cumb., Northumb. and Westmld. 1617-d., Yorks. 1619-d., Ripon and Cawood liberties, Yorks. c.1632-d., custos rot. Westmld. 1622-d.;9 ld. lt. (jt.) Cumb., Northumb. and Westmld. 1618-39, (sole) Westmld. 1639-d., Yorks. 1642-3; commr. border offences 1618, 1619;10 member, Council in the North 161...

    According to a Civil War adversary, Clifford’s ‘peaceable nature’ and ‘amiable disposition’, brought him few enemies apart from his cousin Lady Anne Clifford, who nevertheless described him as ‘a tall and proper man, a good courtier, a brave horseman, an excellent huntsman, and well skilled in architecture and mathematics’. Before the consummation ...

  3. Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642 - 1710.

  4. Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, 12th Baron de Clifford (1517–1569) George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 13th Baron de Clifford KG (1558–1605) (dormant until 1678) Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (1590–1676), married firstly Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset and secondly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery.

  5. Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (1592-1643) Henry Clifford was born at Londesborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire. As a son of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, he was educated at Oxford and in 1607 became the joint Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland.

  6. Henry Clifford (15921643), 5th Earl of Cumberland by Daniel Mytens (c.1590–1647), from English Heritage, Chiswick House