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SIR GEORGE RADCLIFFE (1593-1657)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:GEORGE See also:RADCLIFFE (1593-1657)  , See also:English politician, son of See also:Nicholas See also:Radcliffe (d . 1599) of Overthorpe, See also:Yorkshire, was educated at See also:Oldham and at University See also:College, See also:Oxford . He attained some measure of success as a See also:barrister, and about 1626 became the confidential adviser of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Wentworth, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Strafford, who was related to his wife, See also:Anne Trappes (d . 1659) . Like his See also:master he was imprisoned in 1627 for declining to contribute to a forced See also:loan, but he shared the See also:good, as well as the See also:ill, fortunes of Wentworth, acting as his adviser when he was See also:president of the See also:council of the See also:north . When Wentworth was made See also:lord See also:deputy of See also:Ireland, Radcliffe, in See also:January 1633, preceded him to that See also:country, and having been made a member of the Irish privy council he was trusted by the deputy in the fullest possible way, his See also:advice being of the greatest service . In 164o, Radcliffe, like Strafford, was. arrested and was impeached, but the charges against him were not pressed, and in 1643 he was with See also:Charles I. at Oxford . He died at See also:Flushing in May 1657 . Radcliffe wrote An See also:essay towards the See also:life of my Lord Strafford, from which the material for the various lives of the statesman has been largely taken . See Sir T . D . See also:Whitaker, Life and See also:Correspondence of Sir G .

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