Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland
Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland( 28 February 159111 December 1643) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.
He was created a Baron in 1628 and succeeded to the title Earl of Cumberland in 1641.
Clifford was the son of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland and Grisold Hughes and a member of the Clifford family which held the seat of Skipton from 1310 to 1676.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1607 he became joint Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland in 1614, and was returned in 1621.
In 1621 he became Custos Rotulorum of Westmorland.
He was created Baron Clifford in 1628.
Clifford was a supporter of Charles I during the so- called Bishops' Wars in Scotland, and also during the Civil War until his death.
He succeeded to the title of Earl of Cumberland in 1641 and died two years later in 1643 at the age of 52; as he left no sons the earldom became extinct.
Clifford married Lady Frances Cecil( 159314 February 1644), daughter of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Elizabeth Brooke.
They had one child: Lady Elizabeth Clifford who married Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington.
Margaret Clifford, Countess of Derby
Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby( née Lady Margaret Clifford; 1540 – 28 September 1596) was the only surviving daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland and Lady Eleanor Brandon.
Her maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, Queen of France.
Mary was the third daughter of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland
Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland (1517 –
January 1570) was a member of the Clifford family, seated at Skipton Castle from 1310 to 1676.
His wife was Lady Eleanor Brandon, a niece of King Henry VIII.
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury
Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury( later styled Aylesbury) and 3rd Earl of Elgin( 1656 – 16 December 1741) was an English politician and memoirist.
He was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, and Lady Diana Grey.
His maternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, and Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter.
His" Memoirs", which were not published until long after his death, are a valuable source for English history in the last quarter of the seventeenth century.
Thomas Wharton (died 1622)
Sir Thomas Wharton( c 1588 – 17 April 1622) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1622.
Wharton was the second son of Philip Wharton, 3rd Baron Wharton and his wife Frances Clifford, second daughter of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland.
He purchased the estate of Aske Hall at Easby, Yorkshire from Lady Eleanor Bowes, a distant relative early in 1611 and was knighted at Whitehall on 25 April 1611.
In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland and re-elected in 1621.
Wharton died at the age of about 34.
He had married Lady Philadelphia Carey, daughter of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth on 11 April 1611.
His elder brother George had been killed in a duel in 1609, and thus his eldest son young Philip inherited the barony when the 3rd Baron died in 1625.
Wharton's second son Thomas was also MP for Westmorland.
Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland
Margaret Clifford ("née" Russell), Countess of Cumberland (7 July 1560 – 24 May 1616) was an English noblewoman and maid of honor to Elizabeth I. Lady Margaret was born in Exeter, England to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and Margaret St John.
On 24 June 1577 she married George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland the son of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland and Anne Dacre.
Her sister, Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick, was married to Ambrose Dudley, brother of Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, and Anne too was a great literary patron and a close friend to Queen Elizabeth I, attending her on her death bed.
In 1593, Lady Margaret Russell founded Beamsley Hospital, an almshouse for local widows.
The tomb of the Countess is at St Lawrence's Church, Appleby along with that of her daughter, Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford.
Henry Clifford (legal writer)
Henry Clifford (2 March 1768 – 22 April 1813) was an English legal writer.
Eleanor Brandon, Countess of Cumberland
Lady Eleanor Brandon (1519 – 27 September 1547) was the third child and second daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Princess Mary Tudor, the Dowager Queen consort of France.
She was a younger sister of Lady Frances Brandon and an elder sister of Henry Brandon, 1st Earl of Lincoln.
She was also a younger paternal half-sister of Lady Anne Brandon and Lady Mary Brandon from her father's second marriage.
After her mother's death in 1533, her father remarried to Catherine Willoughby and Eleanor became an elder half-sister of Henry Brandon, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Charles Brandon, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.
Her paternal grandparents were Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn.
Her maternal grandparents were Henry VII of England and his queen consort Elizabeth of York.
She was thus a niece of Henry VIII.
Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland
Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland( 15594 January 1641) was a member of the Clifford family which held the seat of Skipton from 1310 to 1676.
He was the second son of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland and Anne Dacre and inherited his title and estates on the death of his brother George, who had willed them to him in place of his daughter Anne.
A long lawsuit between them over the possession of the family estates was settled in 1617.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland in 1584 and 1586 and for Yorkshire in 1604.
He was appointed Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1600, constable of Knaresborough castle in 1604 and keeper of Carlisle castle in 1605.
He was Custos Rotulorum of Cumberland from 1605 to 1639 and joint Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland( 1607 – 1639), Westmorland( 1607 – 1641) and Newcastle and a member of the Council of the North in 1619.
He married Grisold Hughes, daughter of Thomas Hughes and Elizabeth Dwnn( or Don), daughter of Sir Griffith Dwnn( or Don) and Elizabeth Roche- Eden, circa March 1589.
Children of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland and Grisold Hughes:
He died on 21 January 1640/ 41.
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland
Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland KG( 1493 – 22 April 1542) was a member of the Clifford family which was seated at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire from 1310 to 1676.

Question: What nationality is Henry Clifford, 2Nd Earl Of Cumberland's wife?
Answer: England