Background
Culliford was the posthumous son of Robert Culliford of Encombe, Dorset and his wife Margaret Hyde, daughter of Robert Hyde of West Hatch, Wiltshire.
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Robert Culliford
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Career
He came into the estate at Encombe,on the Isle of Purbeck, at birth and farmed lieutenant During the English Civil War his actions were mainly directed at safe-guarding his property and cattle as he helped the Royalists capture Wareham in 1644 but then raised a force of 250 men in 1646 to blockade the Royalist garrison of Corfe Castle. He was thereby exempted from compounding for delinquency and from the decimation tax in 1656.
He was Justice of the Peace for Dorset from July 1660 to June 1688 and commissioner for assessment for Dorset from August 1660 to 1663.
He was Deputy Lieutenant for the Isle of Purbeck from 1661 to about 1676. In 1662 he became a freeman of Lyme Regis and commissioner for corporations for Dorset until 1663.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Poole in 1665 and commissioner for assessment for Dorset from 1666 to 1680. In 1675 he was commissioner for recusants.
He was removed from the commission of the peace in June 1688 and during the Glorious Revolution he protected some Roman Catholic neighbours at Lulworth Castle when they were threatened by a mob.
One of these neighbours said of the incident "God has been pleased to raise up a friend of almost an enemy". He was reinstated Justice of the Peace for Dorset from November 1688 until his death and was a commissioner for assessment for Dorset from 1689 to 1690. Culliford died at the age of 70 and was buried at Corfe Castle on 10 February 1698.
Membership
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In 1660, Culliford was elected Member of Parliament for Wareham for the Convention Parliament.
