Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet
Sir Gervase Clifton (1744–1815) was 6th Baronet Clifton of Clifton, Nottinghamshire. and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire from 1767 to 1768.
Family
Gervase was the only son of Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet, and his second wife Judith. He succeeded his father in 1762.
He married in 1766 Frances Egerton Lloyd (d 1779), daughter of Richard Lloyd of Aberbrachen, Denbighshire, and Trelydan, Montgomeryshire. The marriage produced the following children:
Career
He was a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire for many years and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire from 1767 to 1768.
In 1765 he sold Hodsock Priory to the Mellish family, concentrating his estates in Clifton. He remodelled Clifton Hall, Nottingham using the architect John Carr of York between 1779 and 1797.
References
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