Baron Clifford is a

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in the

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created by writ of summons on 17 February 1628 for Henry Clifford, Lord Clifford (so styled as heir to the Earldom of Cumberland). The title was believed to be held by Lord Clifford's father and descending to Lord Clifford via a

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, but it would later be determined that the Clifford title held by that family had passed to a female relative, so the summons of 1628 unintentionally created a new title. Lord Clifford inherited his father's title in 1641, whereupon he sat in the

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Earl of Cumberland The title of Earl of Cumberland was created in the Peerage of England in 1525 for the 11th Baron de Clifford.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press'', 2004. It became extinct in 1643. The dukedom of Cumberland was cr ...

until his death in 1643. His daughter Lady Elizabeth Clifford succeeded to the title ''suo jure'' (although, as was customary in those days, she never made claim to it). Lady Elizabeth had married, in 1634, the Hon. Richard Boyle (later

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) who was also created in 1644 Baron Clifford of Lanesborough in the

with a seat in the House of Lords. The Clifford barony of 1628 creation remained with the Earls of Burlington and Cork until the death of the 3rd and last Earl of Burlington in 1753, when that earldom and the Clifford of Lanesborough barony (''i.e.'' the 1644 creation) became extinct. This Clifford peerage then devolved upon

Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington Charlotte Elizabeth Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, 6th Baroness Clifford (born Lady Charlotte Boyle; 27 October 1731 – 8 December 1754) was the daughter of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and Lady Dorothy Savile. From 1748 until ...

, wife of the future 4th Duke of Devonshire. Then the barony of Clifford was held by the

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until the death of

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, (21 May 1790 K. D. Reynolds, ‘Cavendish, William George Spencer, sixth duke of Devonshire (1790–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; ...

in 1858, since when it has been in

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Barons Clifford (1628)

* Henry Clifford 1st Baron Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland (1591–1643) summoned to Parliament as Lord Clifford in 1628; succeeded to the earldom in 1641 *Elizabeth, Countess of Burlington and 2nd Baroness Clifford (1613–1691) * Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, 3rd Baron Clifford (1639–1694) * Charles Boyle, 4th Baron Clifford, 2nd Earl of Burlington, 3rd Earl of Cork (1660–1704) * Richard Boyle, 5th Baron Clifford, 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork (1694–1753) * Charlotte Elizabeth Cavendish, 6th Baroness Clifford (1731–1754) * William Cavendish, 7th Baron Clifford, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748–1811) * William Spencer Cavendish, 8th Baron Clifford, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790–1858), upon whose death in 1858 the barony became

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Current senior co-heirs to the barony include the

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and the

Earl of Carlisle Earl of Carlisle is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England. History The first creation came in 1322, when Andrew Harclay, 1st Baron Harclay, was made Earl of Carlisle. He had already been summoned to Parliame ...

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Barons Clifford (1628)

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