Thomas Hugh (Clifford) Constable (1762 - 1823)

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Mcdonall (Chichester) Clifford-Constable — married 1791 in St James Catholic Church, Spanish Place, London, England

Descendants

Died 25 Feb 1823 at age 60 in Ghent, Flanders

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Biography

He added Constable to his name in 1821 because he had inherited the Constable estates in Yorkshire from a relation. He died at Ghent in Flanders on 25 February 1823. (Some later sources place his death in 1829, but the newspapers from the 1820s are very clear that it was 1823.)

Sources

• Hampshire Chronicle, 2 May 1791 page 3. findmypast

A marriage is on the tapis between Mr. Clifford of Tixall, and the youngest Miss Chichester of Arlington, in Devon. Mr. Clifford had for many years paid his addresses to the eldest sister; but, she having taken the veil, the youngest became the object of his choice. The lady’s fortune amounts to 30,000 l.

• St. James Spanish Place RC register? findmypast from Boyd’s marriage index

Thomas H Clifford and Mary Mcdonall Chichester were married in 1791

• Morning Post, 10 March 1823, findmypast

DIED

At Ghent, on the 25th ult. Sir Thomas Constable, Bart. of Tixall, in Staffordshire, and of Burton-Constable in Yorkshire.

• Staffordshire Advertiser, 15 March 1823 page 3. findmypast

DEATH OF SIR THOMAS CONSTABLE, BARONET

It is with the greatest regret that we have to announce to our readers the death of Sir Thomas Constable, Bart. of Tixall, in this county, and of Burton-Constable and Wycliff, in the county of York, which happened at Ghent, in the Low Countries, on the 25th of last month.

(long text on Sir Thomas and his family)

Last paragraph:

Sir T. Constable married Miss Chichester, daughter to the late and sister to the present John Chichester, of Arlington, Esq. in the county of Devon, who survives him, and by whom he has left two daughters, and one son in his 17th year, the present Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable.

• G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 287.

• Kirk, John. Biographies of English Catholics in the Eighteenth Century (Burns & Oates, London, 1909) Page 56.