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Frederick Clifford, KC (1828โ€“1904) was an English journalist, known also as a barrister and legal writer.

Life

Born Frederick Catt at

William Christopher Leng.[1]

In 1866 Clifford went to

Press Association, an institution formed to supply newspaper proprietors of London and the provinces with home and foreign news, and he acted as chairman of the committee of management during two periods of five years each, finally retiring in 1880. In 1877, with the failing health of the editor, John Thadeus Delane, Clifford was transferred by The Times from the reporters' gallery of the House of Commons to Printing House Square; and he acted as assistant editor until his own bad health caused him to resign in 1883.[1]

In parallel, Clifford had made a position as a legal writer. He was admitted to the

took silk in 1894, and was elected a bencher of his inn on 18 May 1900.[1]

Clifford was a student of agricultural questions also, and a member of the Royal Botanic Society. He died at his residence, 24 Collingham Gardens, Earl's Court, on 30 December 1904. His library formed a three days' sale at Sotheby's (5โ€“7 May 1905). He was a collector of fans and other works of art.[1]

Guild of Literature and Art

Guild of Literature and Art Act 1854
Act of Parliament
17 & 18 Vict. c. liv
Dates
Royal assent2 June 1854
Other legislation
Repealed byGuild of Literature and Art (Dissolution) Act 1897
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted
Guild of Literature and Art (Dissolution) Act 1897
Act of Parliament
60 & 61 Vict. c. xciii
Text of statute as originally enacted

In early life Clifford co-operated with

60 & 61 Vict. c. xciii), drafted by Clifford. They distributed the Funds and landed property (at Knebworth) between the Royal Literary Fund and the Artists' General Benevolent Institution.[1]

Works

In 1870 Clifford, with his lifelong friend, Pembroke S. Stephens, K.C., published The Practice of the Court of Referees on Private Bills in Parliament. This textbook on

locus standi of petitioners during the sessions 1867-9. Clifford continued to act as joint editor of the Locus Standi Reports to the end of the session of 1884. The historical aspect of the practice especially interested him, and he published later The History of Private Bill Legislation (2 vols. 1885-1887). He wrote also:[1]

Family

Clifford married in 1853 Caroline, third daughter of Thomas Mason of Hull; she died in 1900. His surviving family of four sons and two daughters presented in his memory a silver-gilt claret jug to the Middle Temple.

His second son, Philip Henry Clifford (1856โ€“1895), graduated B.A. in 1878 from Christ's College, Cambridge, and proceeded M.A. in 1881.[1] He was also a barrister, and writer for The Times.[2]

His fourth son, Colonel Sir Charles Clifford, KBE, CMG, LLD, JP (1860-1936).[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Clifford, Frederick" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ "Clifford, Philip Henry (CLFT874PH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Sir Charles Clifford

Attribution

Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Clifford, Frederick". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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