[Illustration] Gervase de Clifton, living in the fifth of John, is
the patriarch of this honourable family, who took their name from
the manor of Clifton, which was the inheritance of Sir Gervase
Clifton, in the ninth of Edward II. One of the most remarkable
members was the first Baronet, Sir Gervase Clifton, who died in
1666, "very prosperous and beloved of all, after having been the
husband of seven wives."
See an interesting account of him and of the family and their
curious monuments in Thoroton's Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, p.
53, &c.; see also Wotton's Baronetage, i. 34.
ARMS.--_Sable, semee of cinquefoils, and a lion rampant argent,
armed and langued gules_. This coat reversed was borne by Monsieur
John de Clyfton, in the reign of Richard II. (Roll of the date.)
Present Representative, Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, 9th Baronet.