Background
Clifton was the third son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet, (1744–1815), one time High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and a lineal descendant of Avaredus, a follower of William the Conqueror.
Clifton was the third son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet, (1744–1815), one time High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and a lineal descendant of Avaredus, a follower of William the Conqueror.
Rugby School.
Educated at Rugby, he entered the army in 1794. On the death of Major General Sir William Ponsonby at Waterloo, Clifton commanded the 2nd Union Cavalry Brigade. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of General.
He was the Brother of Sir Robert Clifton, 7th Baronet, Sir Juckes Granville Juckes-Clifton, 8th Baronet and Frances Egerton Clifton who married the Venerable (of an Archdeacon)
Robert Markham, archdeacon of York, in 1797.