词条 | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh |
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Baron Clifford of Chudleigh | image = 1stLordClifford.jpg | constituency_MP = Totnes | parliament = English | term_start = 1660 | term_end = 1673 | alongside = {{unbulleted list|Thomas Chafe {{small|(1660{{snd}}1661)}}|Sir Edward Seymour {{small|(1661{{snd}}1673)}}}} | successor = {{unbulleted list|Sir Thomas Berry|Sir Edward Seymour}} | office2 = Lord High Treasurer | term_start2= 1672 | term_end2 = 1673 | predecessor2 = In Commission | successor2 = The Viscount Latimer | office3 = Treasurer of the Household | term_start3 = 1668 | term_end3 = 1672 | predecessor3 = The Viscount Fitzhardinge | successor3 = The Lord Newport | office4 = Comptroller of the Household | term_start4 = 1666 | term_end4 = 1668 | predecessor4 = Sir Hugh Pollard, Bt | successor4 = The Lord Newport | birth_name = Thomas Clifford | birth_date = {{birth date|1630|08|01|df=yes}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1673|10|17|1630|08|01|df=yes}} | death_cause = Suicide | nationality = English | spouse = Elizabeth Martin | parents = {{unbulleted list| Sir Hugh Clifford|Mary Chudleigh}} | children = 15, including Hugh Clifford }} Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1 August 1630 – 17 October 1673) was an English statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672 when he was created Baron Clifford. BackgroundClifford was born in Ugbrooke, the son of Hugh Clifford of Chudleigh, Devon, and his wife Mary Chudleigh, daughter of Sir George Chudleigh, 1st Baronet. He was baptised on 4 August 1630 at Ugbrooke. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1647 and entered Middle Temple in 1648.[1] Political and Public LifeIn April 1660, Clifford was elected Member of Parliament for Totnes in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Totnes in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.[1] He distinguished himself in naval battles, and was knighted. He became Comptroller of the Household in 1666 and a member of the Privy Council. At the end of the Dutch war in 1669 he intrigued against the peace treaty, preferring the French interests. He was one of the five Counsellors who formed the Cabal, though he was probably the least important of them. This clique had a reputation for self-seeking policies. Indeed, Clifford was known as 'the Bribe Master General'. Clifford was created the first Baron Clifford of Chudleigh on 22 April 1672 for his suggestion that the King supply himself with money by stopping, for one year, all payments out of the Exchequer. He was Lord High Treasurer from 28 November 1672 to June 1673, when, as a Roman Catholic, he found himself unable to comply with the Test Act and resigned. He died by his own hand (perhaps "strangled with his cravatt upon the bed-tester") a few months after his retirement. Family and children
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