Sir Charles Cavendish Clifford, 4th Baronet (7 January 1821 – 22 November 1895)[1] was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.
He was a member of parliament (MP) for over 20 years, representing seats on the Isle of Wight, and served as private secretary to the Liberal statesman Viscount Palmerston.
[2] He was educated at Charterhouse School and at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated in 1843 with a 4th-class Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
He also held several local ceremonial appointments: he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire in 1847,[7] and as a Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers in January 1860,[8] but had resigned the latter commission by February 1863.
[9] Clifford was the author of translations of Aristophanes' Ranae and of the Aeschylus's Prometheus Vinctus.