Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet

(25 November 1587 – 28 June 1666) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1666.

[1] In 1603, at the English coronation of King James I, Clifton was made a Knight of the Order of the Bath.

He sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.

[4] In November 1640, Clifton was elected MP for East Retford in the Long Parliament.

[4] He took up arms in the King's cause in the Civil War and was commissioned as Colonel of a regiment of Nottinghamshire Trained Bands defending Newark-on-Trent.

With the defeat of the Royalist cause in 1646 and the capture of the King, Clifton lost his political influence both nationally and locally.

This marriage produced four children: Lastly, he married Lady Alice Hastings, daughter of Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, and Lady Elizabeth Stanley, on 17 December 1656 at St. Andrew Undershaft, London.