Several generations of the Mott family had resided at Barningham Hall in North Barningham, Norfolk.
:This article is about the contemporary writer Radclyffe; for the author of The Well of Loneliness see Radclyffe Hall.
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The Radclyffe family were ardent followers of the House of Stuart, James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1689–1716), being raised at the court of the Stuarts in France as companion to James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender.
Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex (1507 - 1557), son of Robert Radclyffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex
Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, KG (also spelled "Radcliffe") (1507 – 17 February 1557) was a son of Robert Radclyffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex.
Lady Mary Tudor (1673–1726), illegitimate daughter of Charles II and wife of Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater
Ordsall Hall is a Tudor mansion that was for over 300 years the home of the Radclyffe family.
Lovat Dickson (1975): Radclyffe Hall and the Well of Loneliness: A Sapphic Chronicle (HarperCollins)
On 27 May 1847 he married Georgina Maria, younger daughter of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom, barrister, by whom he had three sons—Christopher (b. 1850), Albemarle Alexander, late major 8th hussars, John Frederick Peel—and one daughter.
According to Lovat Dickson, an early biographer of Radclyffe Hall, "the family life was built on beauty, wit and style".