Gervase Clifton

Sir Gervase Clifton (1415–1471) was a 15th century English knight and landowner.

He was a junior member of the Clifton family of Nottinghamshire and possibly a younger son of Sir Gervase Clifton (died 1453).

He served as Lieutenant of Dover Castle and as Captain of Pontoise, France where he was knighted. He came into an estate at Bradbourne, Kent by his marriage to heiress Isabel Herbert. He was Mayor of Canterbury in 1450, served as High Sheriff of Kent 1439,1450 and 1458 and represented Kent in the Parliament of 1455.

He was briefly Treasurer of the Household of Henry VI and Treasurer of Calais 1450–60.

He was declared a traitor for his support of Margaret of Anjou. He took part in and was captured at the Battle of Tewkesbury during the Wars of the Roses and was beheaded in Tewkesbury market place along with other Lancastrian leaders on 6 May 1471.

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