Elizabeth Adeline Mary (Bligh), suo jure 17th Baroness Clifton

1900 - 1937  (37 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Adeline Mary (Bligh)  [1]
  Suffix	suo jure 17th Baroness Clifton
  Born	22 Jan. 1900	Cobham, Kent, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Hereditary Title	From 31 Oct. 1900 to 5 July 1937  [1]
  	17th Baroness Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold [E., 1608]
  Census	2 April 1911	16, Hyde Park Gardens, Paddington, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Occupation	1926  [1]
  	Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn
  	Lady Clifton was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1926. [3]
  Died	5 July 1937	Hindhead, Surrey, England   [1, 4]
  Buried	8 July 1937	Cobham, Kent, England   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I2525	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	2 Jan. 2021

  
  

  Father	Edward Henry Stuart (Bligh), 7th Earl of Darnley,   b. 21 Aug. 1851,   d. 31 Oct. 1900  (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Jemima Adeline Beatrice Blackwood,   b. 23 March 1880, Torquay, Devon, England ,   d. 29 April 1964, Glindon Nursing Home, 7, Lewes Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, England  (Age 84 years)
  Married	26 Jan. 1899  [6]
  Family ID	F1268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Under the pseudonym of Lenox Fane, she published a novel "Legation Street," a volume of poems, a play, Charles Edward Stuart, and "Living in the Country," 1935. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1034. [S28] 1911 England and Wales Census, class RG14, piece 78, schedule 68. [S23] The Times, (London, England), Issue 47730, page 18, 7 July 1937. [S23] The Times, (London, England), Issue 47731, page 1, 8 July 1937. "CLIFTON.—On July 5, 1937, at Hindhead, from pleurisy and heart failure, the RIGHT HONOURABLE ELIZABETH ADELINE MARY, 17TH BARONESS CLIFTON, of Leighton Bromswold, Barrister-at-Law, only child of the 7th Earl of Darnley and of Lady Leveson, 35, Hereford House, Park Lane, aged 37. Funeral at Cobham Church, Kent, to-day (Thursday), 2.30 p.m. Station, Solestreet. Flowers to Mills and Sons, 31, Cambridge Place, Paddington, W.2. Paddington 6173." [S23] The Times, (London, England), Issue 47732, page 11, 9 July 1937. "BARONESS CLIFTON OF LEIGHTON BROMSWOLD "The funeral of Elizabeth Adeline Mary, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold, took place at Cobham, Kent, yesterday. Canon G. C. E. Ryley and the Rev. K. M. Ffinch officiated. Among those present were:— "Lady Leveson the Earl of Darnley, the Dowager Countess of Darnley, Lady Alice Bligh, Mrs. H. J. Leveson, Miss Leveson, Mr. Arthur Leveson, Miss P. K. Leveson, Mr. Murray Leveson, Mr. Lancelot Leveson, Commander Arthur Blackwood, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blackwood, Mrs. William Rashleigh, Mr. H. P. Rashleigh. "Sir Sidney Barton, Commander and Mrs. Philip Warr, Lieutenant-Commander Sir Hugh Dawson, Mrs. Dawson, Admiral Sir Herbert Purey-Cust, Mrs. Champernowne, Mrs. Gordon Canning, Major and Mrs. W. H. Bradford, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Macleod, Mrs. D. D. Robertson, Miss Helen McKie, Mrs. D. G. Scott, Lady (Herbert) Baker, Major and Mrs. H. Edmeades, Miss E. J. Stevens, Miss Adams, Miss F. Pye, Mrs. Ffinch, and Mr. P. T. Baker." [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1033.