Theodosia Bligh, 10th Baroness Clifton

Arms of Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire (Baron Clifton of Leighton Bromswold): Sable semée of cinquefoils and a lion rampant argent

Theodosia Bligh, 10th Baroness Clifton (9th November 1695 – 30th July 1722), was an English peer, born Theodosia Hyde.[1][2]

Life

Baroness Clifton was the third child and second daughter of Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon and Katherine Hyde, 8th Baroness Clifton. Her mother's title went first to her brother Edward Hyde, 9th Baron Clifton, but after his death from a 'surfeit of drinking',[3] she succeeded as the 10th Baroness Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold on the 12th February 1713.[4]

Baroness Clifton married John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley soon afterwards, on the 24th August 1713 at Westminster Abbey. They had six children and Baroness Clifton died in childbirth in 1722. She was buried on the 15th August 1722 at Westminster Abbey. Baroness Clifton's title passed to her second son, Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley.

The portrait called "Lady Theodosia Bligh, Countess of Glandore" painted in the manner of John Vanderbank the younger is now thought to be of her mother, Baroness Clifton. It is now in the collection of Castle Ward, County Down.[5]

Children


Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Hyde		 Baroness Clifton
1713–1722		 Succeeded by
Edward Bligh

References

  1. ↑ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  2. ↑ Debrett, John (1820). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  3. ↑ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
  4. ↑ Ireland, William Henry (1830). England's Topographer: Or A New and Complete History of the County of Kent; from the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Including Every Modern Improvement. Embellished with a Series of Views from Original Drawings by Geo. Shepherd, H. Gastineau, &c. with Historical, Topographical, Critical, & Biographical Delineations. G. Virtue.
  5. ↑ Ltd, e3 Media. "Called Lady Theodosia Bligh, Countess of Glandore (1722-1777), but really her Mother, Theodosia, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, Countess of Darnley (1695-1722) 836223". Retrieved 2018-07-11.
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