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Surname Clifford Alternative Surname
First Name Richard William, of Stow-on-the-Wold Initial of Surname C
Year of Birth/Baptism Flourished 1828-34
Year of Death
Biographical Details There were several Cliffords who were masons in the neighbourhood of Stow, including Richard Clifford (l734-l797) and William Clifford of Bourton-on-the-Water (1747-1833). The latter was employed by Warren Hastings to build Daylesford church in 1816. Gunnis was uncertain which of these was the father of Richard William Clifford, who signs three monuments in Stow Church. The earliest, to Leonard Hayward, 1828, takes the form of a classical urn and is a copy in marble of a Coade Factory terra-cotta erected in 1780 on the same wall (1). The other two are tablets.
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 104-5
 
 
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