Sir Thomas Hugh Clifford-Constable, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Clifford-Constable, 1st Baronet (1762–1823) was an English topographer and botanist.

Life He was born as Thomas Clifford into a Roman Catholic family, the eldest son of Thomas Clifford, fourth son of Hugh Clifford, 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and his wife Barbara Aston, youngest daughter of James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar; among his brothers were Henry Clifford, the second son, and Arthur Clifford. He was educated at a Jesuit academy in Liège, going on to the College de Navarre, in Paris. He then made a walking tour in Switzerland. A funerary hatchment painted with the arms of Sir Thomas Hugh Constable 1st Bt. and his wife Mary In 1821 Clifford succeeded to the estates of Francis Constable of Burton Constable and Wycliffe Hall. Two years later he was, by royal sign-manual, permitted to take the name of Constable only. He died at Ghent on 26 February 1823.