SIR

See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE

See also:

• RADCLIFFE
• RADCLIFFE, ANN (1764-1823)
• RADCLIFFE, JOHN (1650-1714)
• SIR GEORGE RADCLIFFE (1593-1657)

RADCLIFFE (1593-1657)  , English politician, son of Nicholas Radcliffe (d . 1599) of Overthorpe, Yorkshire, was educated at Oldham and at University College, Oxford . He attained some measure of success as a barrister, and about 1626 became the confidential adviser of Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards earl of Strafford, who was related to his wife, Anne Trappes (d . 1659) . Like his master he was imprisoned in 1627 for declining to contribute to a forced loan, but he shared the good, as well as the ill, fortunes of Wentworth, acting as his adviser when he was president of the council of the north . When Wentworth was made lord deputy of Ireland, Radcliffe, in January 1633, preceded him to that country, and having been made a member of the Irish privy council he was trusted by the deputy in the fullest possible way, his 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 Charles I. at Oxford . He died at Flushing in May 1657 . Radcliffe wrote An essay towards the life of my Lord Strafford, from which the material for the various lives of the statesman has been largely taken . See Sir T . D . Whitaker, Life and Correspondence of Sir G .

Radcliffe (181o) .