RADCLIFFE, SIR GEORGE (1593-1657)

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RADCLIFFE, SIR GEORGE (1593-1657) ,

English

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

BARRISTER

, and about 1626 became the confidential adviser of Sir

Thomas

Wentworth, afterwards

earl

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

LOAN (adapted from the Scandinavian form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Swed. Mn, Icel. lan, Dut. leen; the O.E. laen appears in " lend," the ultimate source is seen in the root of Gr. Xeiaecv and Lat. linquere, to leave)

, 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

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

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

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

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

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

LIFE

and Correspondence of Sir G. Radcliffe (181o).

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