o "1 r "< £. - n a- cr. o O 3 E. O "s • n •?? I 312 CLIFTON XIV. 1 83 1. 14. Edward (Bligh), Earl OF Darnley, £5fc., and Lord Clifton (of Leighton Bromswold), 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h. He d. 12 Feb. 1835. XV. 1835. '5- John Stuart (Bligh), Earl OF Darnley, fsfc, and Lord Clifton (of Leighton Bromswold), 1st s. and h. He d. 14 Dec. 1896. XVL 1896. 16. Edward Henry Stuart (Bligh), Earl OF Darnley, i^c., and Lord Clifton (of Leighton Bromswold), ist s. and h. He d. s.p.m., 31 Oct. 1900, when the Earldom of Darnley and his other Irish honours devolved on his br. and h. male, Ivo, but the Barony of Clifton of Leighton Broms- wold devolved, according to the decision of 7 Feb. 1674, on his only da. and h. gen., as below. XVII. 1900. 17. Elizabeth Adeline Mary (Bligh), Baroness Clifton (of Leighton Bromswold [1608]), only child and h. She was ^.22 Jan. 1900. CLIFTON OF RATHMORE BARONY [I.] I. John Bligh, of Rathmore, co. Meath, having m., 24 Aug. 1 7 13, Theodosia, suojure, Baroness Clifton (of 1. 1 72 1. Leighton Bromswold), was, on 14 Sep. 1721, cr. BARON CLIFTON OF RATHMORE, co. Meath [I.]. On 7 Mar. 1722/3, he was cr. VISCOUNT DARNLEY OF ATHBOY, co. Meath [1.], and, on 29 June 1725, EARL OF DARNLEY, co. Meath [I.]. See "Darnley," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1725. CLINTON(") BARONY BY i. John de ClintoNjC") of Amington and Maxstoke, WRIT. CO. Warwick, 2nd but ist surv. s. and h. of Thomas de C.,('^) of Amington (d. v.p., before 1264), by Maud, da. of I. 1299. Sir Ralph Bracebridge, of Kinsbury, co. Warwick, was b. probably in 1258. He served, or was called upon to serve, (^) The Editor is indebted to the writer of the articles in The Ancestor referred to below, p. 316, note " a," for numerous corrections in the earlier portion of this article, and particularly for a new account of the marriages of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th lords, and for various additions to the pedigree as shown in the chart on p. 320. V.G. C') The name is said to be from the manor of Glinton, afterwards Clinton, Northants, near Market Deeping, but the Clintons were Oxfordshire people as early as 1230. In N. y Q., 7th Series, vol. viii, p. 486, it is stated that the 1st Earl of Lincoln "obtained a grant of this very district of Glinton," no doubt because of the similarity of name. Lower, in his Family Names, states it to be " from Glimpton, anciently written Clinton, co. Oxford." The founder of the family, Geoffrey de Clinton, Treasurer and Chamberlain to King Henry I, is said, by Ordericus (who, as a contemporary, probably can be trusted), to have been of mean parentage, though, according to some accounts, he was of the noblest Norman extraction. if) This Thomas was 1st s. of another Thomas de C, the writ for whose Inq. p. m.
