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6 unusual facts about Clifton Hall


Anthony Lowther, Viscount Lowther

Lowther returned to the family estates after the war, dwelling in Clifton Hall, Westmorland.

Clifton Hall

Clifton Hall School, a mixed private school outside Edinburgh, Scotland

Clifton Hall, Nottingham, a supposedly haunted country house in Clifton, Nottingham, England

Clifton Hall Girls' Grammar School, a former girls' grammar school based in Clifton Hall

Clifton Village, Nottinghamshire

A number of older properties lie along Village Road, which runs from the green to Clifton Hall, the former aristocratic seat of the Clifton family and erstwhile Education Department of Nottingham Trent University.

Clifton, Nottingham

The village is notable for many old buildings including Clifton Hall, and St. Mary's Church.


Henry James Pye

He married secondly in 1801 Martha Corbett, by whom he had a son Henry John Pye, who in 1833 inherited the Clifton Hall, Staffordshire estate of a distant cousin and who was High Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1840.


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Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk

She, in turn, married Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet, of Clifton Hall, MP (1690–1767), and had one daughter Frances Clifton (d 8 November 1786) who married George Carpenter, 3rd Baron Carpenter, later 1st Earl of Tyrconnel (1723–1762) and had many children.