William Clifton, = Isabel, d. of William who inherited | Thornborough, of Westby. | Hampsfield, in Furness. +----------------------------+----+ | | | Thos. Clifton, = Elinor, d. of Wm. Ellen. of Westby. | Sir A. Osbaldiston, | of Osbaldiston, co. | Lancashire, Knt. +----------------------------------+ | |-William Cuthbert Clifton, = Catherine, d. of |-Ellen of Westby. | Sir R. Houghton, |-Isabel | of Houghton, Knt. +------------------------+------------------+ | | Thos. Clifton, = Mary, d. of Sir Ed. Seven other of Westby. | Norreys, of Speke, Knt. children. +------------+ | Sir Cuthbert Clifton,[60] = Ann, d. of Sir Thos. Tyldesley, of Westby & Lytham, | of Morley. Knt. | +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ | | | Thomas Clifton, of Cuthbert Elizabeth. Westby and Lytham, Colonel in the army of Charles died 1657. I., and slain at Manchester. This Thomas Clifton retained the Fairsnape estates, which he had inherited from his mother, during his lifetime, but on his decease they passed to his uncle. He married Eleanora Alathea, the daughter of Richard Walmsley, of Dunkenhalgh, in Lancashire. At his death he left a family of five daughters and two sons, the eldest of whom, Thomas Clifton, of Clifton, Westby, and Lytham, subsequently espoused Mary, the daughter of the fifth Viscount Molyneux. His heir, also Thomas, and born in 1728, rebuilt Lytham Hall, and allied himself to the noble house of Abingdon by marrying, as his third wife, Lady Jane Bertie, the daughter of the third earl. The children of this union were seven, and John, the eldest, born in 1764, inherited the estates, and married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Horsley Widdrington-Riddell, of Felton Park, Northumberland. John Clifton was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas, who had four brothers and three sisters—John, William, Charles, Mary, Harriet, and Elizabeth. Thomas Clifton, of Clifton and Lytham, born in 1788, was a justice of the peace, a deputy-lieutenant, and in 1835, High Sheriff of the county of Lancaster. He married Hetty, the daughter of Pellegrine Trevis, an Italian gentleman of ancient lineage, by whom he had issue John Talbot, born in 1819; Thomas Henry, lieut.-colonel in the army, and knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Mejidie; Edward Arthur, died abroad in 1850; Charles Frederick, who espoused Lady Edith Maud, eldest daughter of the second Marquis of Hastings, and assumed in 1859, by act of parliament,