Clifford (noble and patrician family)

Clifford is the name of a family originating from England, which was native to the Netherlands . The family belonged to the Dutch nobility and patriciate and became extinct in the middle of the 20th century.

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The Cliffords come from Lincolnshire in the north of England . A relationship to the Barons de Clifford and later Earls of Cumberland is unproven. Afterwards the family appears in Herefordshire , which is on the Welsh border. The Dutch family is descended from Richard Clifford, who was hired in 1569 as school principal in Landbeach, north of Cambridge , and as canon of Stow in Lincolnshire. His son Henry Clifford (1576-1628) had a son, George Clifford I, who between 1634 and 1640 was resident in Amsterdam . There they gained wealth and prestige as merchants and bankers, and in the 18th century they became part of the Amsterdam city government . In 1815 the family was introduced to the new Dutch nobility with the Jonkheer title . The older branch of the family was given the title of baron for the first-born in 1874 . During the 19th century the family moved to The Hague . That older branch became extinct by the middle of the 20th century; the younger branch of the family and the branch Oetgens van Waveren- Pancras- Clifford died out in 1939.

people

• George Clifford I , banker
• George Clifford II (1657-1727), banker
• Jeronimo Clifford (17th century), one of the largest plantation owners in Suriname
• George Clifford III (1685–1760), banker and plant lover
• Jan Clifford , Mayor of Amsterdam (1768)
• Pieter Clifford (1712–1788), in the Amsterdam city government, head of the Dutch West India Company and the Dutch East India Company
• Gerard George Clifford (1779–1847), Minister of State , member of the First Chamber of the States General

Web links

• Opmerkingen over de geslachten treatmenteld in Nederland's Adelsboek . (PDF; 8.8 MB) 1949, pp. 43–44.
• Johan E. Elias: De vroedschap van Amsterdam 1578-1795 . Haarlem 1905 (photographic herdruk 1963).