Sunday, 22 September 2013
269 Charles Clifford
Constituency : Isle of Wight 1857-65 Newport ( Isle of Wight ) 1870-85
Charles was an admiral and baronet's son educated at Charterhouse and Oxford. He went on to become a barrister. He visited the Lebanon.
Charles was private secretary to Palmerston. He was also a scholar and published translations of Aristophanes and Aeschylus as well as a travelogue..
Charles decided not to stand in 1865 but was persuaded to contest a by-election in 1870 and returned to Parliament.
He died in 1895 aged 74.
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