Thomas Clifton

Thomas Henry Clifton (3 March 1845 – 31 March 1880) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Early life Clifton was born on 3 March 1845 into a prestigious Lancashire family. He was the only son of John Talbot Clifton and the Lady Eleanor Cecily Lowther. His father, who succeeded Thomas' grandfather to the Lytham Hall and estate in 1851, was a Member of Parliament for North Lancashire between 1844 and 1847 and died in Algeria in 1882, two years after his death. His maternal grandparents were the former Lady Lucy Eleanor Sherard (a daughter of Philip Sherard, 5th Earl of Harborough) and Col. Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther of Barleythorpe Hall, MP for Westmorland (the second son of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale). His paternal grandparents were Hatty (née Treves) Clifton and Thomas Joseph Clifton.