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unusual facts about Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh



Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

His great-grandfather, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin — a seminal work in its day — and he was also the great great grandnephew of Dr Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation' (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

On his father's death in 1988 he succeeded him as Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Through his mother he is a great-grandson of Admiral John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone.

Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh

#Hugh, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1663–1730)

Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh (1 August 1630 – 17 October 1673) was an English statesman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672 when he was created Baron Clifford.

#Amy, born 1661, died 1693, married in October 1681 John Courtenay (d.1724) of Molland, Devon.

William Coventry

Six weeks before Coventry's fall, the conference between Charles, James, Arlington, Clifford and Arundel had taken place, which resulted a year and a half later in the Treaty of Dover.


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