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In the early nineteenth century, the Cliffe family bought
Bellevue, Ballyhogue, County Wexford, which became the main family residence. The family extensively rebuilt the house, with results which were praised as "magnificent". It was burnt to the ground in 1923 during the
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Parliament from 1695 until his retirement from politics in 1727. So long as the Tory Party was in power, he was a leading Government speaker in the Commons. He died at
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Serjeant in 1711, and Second Serjeant in 1712. Government Law Officers, including the Serjeants, then were strictly political appointments, and Cliffe as a
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in 1694, and they had sixteen children, including John, the eldest son and heir, Barbara, Mary and
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