Henry Morgan-Clifford (1806 – 12 February 1884) was a British

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politician. He was elected unopposed at the 1847 general election as one of the two

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(MPs) for the city of Hereford. He was re-elected in three further general elections (unopposed in

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and 1859), but was defeated at the 1865 general election. At the 1868 general election he stood in the two-seat Monmouthshire county constituency,Craig, op. cit., page 528 a county where owned he a large house called ''Llantilio Court'', at

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, near Abergavenny, having inherited it in 1847 from a cousin. However, Monmouthshire had been a solidly Conservative seat since 1841, and in the constituency's first contested election since the

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, Morgan-Clifford came a poor third behind the two Conservative candidates. Morgan-Clifford's heir and only surviving child was his daughter Marion, who married James Fitzwalter Butler (1839–1899), the 15th and 25th

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. In 1860 they changed their surname by royal licence to Clifford-Butler.

Works

* ''Reminiscences of His Life by Colonel Morgan-clifford, 1806-1863''.

References

External links

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Photograph of Colonel Henry Morgan-Clifford
(not viewable on-line) 1806 births 1884 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Abergavenny UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857 UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub