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1800–1866. Rank. Admiral of the Red. Admiral Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet, CB (26 May 1788 – 8 February 1877) was a British Royal Navy officer, court official, and usher of the Black Rod .
Admiral Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet Kt CB MP (26 May 1788 – 8 February 1877) was a British Royal Navy officer, court official, and usher of the Black Rod.
Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Baronet. Parents. William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford. Coat of arms of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, KG. William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, KG (14 December 1748 – 29 July 1811), was a British nobleman, aristocrat, and politician.
15 de jun. de 2022 · Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet, MP (1788–1877), British Royal Navy officer and court official, usher of the Black Rod. Clifford, was born abroad on 26 May 1788, the illegitimate son of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748–1811), and Lady Elizabeth Foster (1759–1824), and educated at Harrow.
- May 26, 1788
- February 8, 1877
CLIFFORD, Kt. Bart., C.B. (Captain, 1812. f-p., 21; h-p., 26.) Sir Augustus William James Clifford entered the Navy, in May, 1800, as Midshipman (under the auspices of Earl Spencer, then First Lord of the Admiralty), on board the Ville de Paris 110, successive flag
2 de may. de 2024 · Portrait of Augustus Clifford. Sir Augustus Clifford (1788–1877) was a Naval Captain appointed Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod from 1832 to 1877. Clifford's long tenure was a time of transition for Black Rod's Office, with a forced reduction in staff and the abolition of the additional fees system that supplemented their salary.
Captain Clifford assisted at the destruction of 10 large armed feluccas, on the beach near Cetraro, in the gulf of Policastro, where they were taken possession of, under a heavy fire of musketry, by a detachment landed from the Thames and Cephalus, but obliged to be burnt, in consequence of the utter impracticability of getting them afloat.
