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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. Clifford was the son of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, and ...

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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 ...

  2. Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (1591–1643) References. ^ a b c Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Categories: Earls of Cumberland. Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of England. Noble titles created in 1525.

  3. 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.

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

  5. CLIFFORD, HENRY, fifth Earl of Cumberland (1591–1643), nephew of George Clifford, third earl [q. v.], and only son of Francis, fourth earl, by Grisold, daughter of Thomas Hughes of Uxbridge, and widow of Edward Nevill, lord Bergavenny, was born on 28 Feb. 1591 at Londesborough ( Dugdale, i. 345).

  6. 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.