Theodosia Bligh, 10th Baroness Clifton


Theodosia Bligh, 10th Baroness Clifton, was an English peer, born Theodosia Hyde.

Life

Clifton was the third child and second daughter of Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon and Katherine Hyde, 8th Baroness Clifton. Her mother's title went first to her brother Edward Hyde, 9th Baron Clifton, but after his death from a 'surfeit of drinking', she succeeded as the 10th Baroness Clifton, of Leighton Bromswold on 12 February 1713.
Baroness Clifton married John Bligh, 1st Earl of Darnley soon afterwards, on 24 August 1713 at Westminster Abbey. They had six children and Baroness Clifton died in childbirth in 1722. She was buried on 15 August 1722 at Westminster Abbey. Baroness Clifton's title passed to her second son, Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley.
The portrait called "Lady Theodosia Bligh, Countess of Glandore" painted in the manner of John Vanderbank the younger is now thought to be of her mother, Baroness Clifton. It is now in the collection of Castle Ward, County Down.

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