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John Radcliffe (1738–1783)

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were also uncontested. During his first 11 years his attendance was irregular and before 8 March 1779 his name appeared in only eight out of 18 division lists.. However his name appears in 12 out of 13 division lists during the period which led to the fall of Lord North's Administration on 15 March
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the sixteenth century. Radcliffe inherited Hitchin Priory from his Uncle Arthur Radcliffe in 1769. He rebuilt the house in 1770-71 of plastered brick, standing about the four sides of a courtyard, which represents the old, small, cloister garth. Radcliffe was the third son of John Radcliffe, a
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wrote about Radcliffe to Lord Carlisle on 12 January 1768 “He is very well spoke of, et le nom est assez beau”. Carlisle wrote to Selwyn, from Rome on 18 June 1768 “Everybody gives Mr. R. such a good character.”
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to give “an intimation ... to Mr. West in favour of Mr. Radcliffe my candidate”. Lord Spencer considered running two candidates for the borough but in the event Radcliffe was returned as
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merchant trading with Turkey and his wife Anne Alcock, daughter of Lawrence Alcock of Trotton Place, Sussex. He was educated at
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Radcliffe died on 21 December 1783, aged 45 without issue. Hitchin Priory passed to his sister Penelope who had married
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1782. All known votes by Radcliffe were given on the Opposition side but no speech by him is reported
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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from 1754 to 1755. He married Lady Frances Howard, daughter of
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on 12 August 1762. Farnaby adopted the name Radcliffe.
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Index

John Radcliffe (1738-1783)
House of Commons
gentry family
Hitchin Priory
Eton College
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle
George Selwyn

Hitchin Priory
1768 general election
St Albans
Lord Grimston
Duke of Newcastle
Member of Parliament
1774
1780
Sir Charles Farnaby, 3rd Baronet


"RADCLIFFE, John (1738-83), of Hitchin Priory, Herts"


http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp12-21
Parliament of Great Britain
James West
Viscount Nuneham
Member of Parliament
St Albans
1768
(Sir) Richard Sutton

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