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in the Scottish peerage, widow of Thomas Clifford, second son of 
Hugh, third Lord Clifford, Baron of Chudleigh, and in her own 
right Baroness Livingstone, Vicountess Kinnaird, and Countess of 
Newburgh. She married in 1713, with a portion amounting to 
10,000, and became a widow with two daughters in 1719. 
Between that time and 1724, Charles Radcliffe became her suitor, 
and is said to have urged his suit no less than sixteen times. His 
sixteenth proposal was, as it deserved to be, successful ; for, having 
obtained access to the lady’s apartments in other ways in vain, he 
at last adopted the very novel expedient of coming down the 
chimney, when the countess, half alarmed and partly pleased at 
his perseverance, received her daring suitor graciously. This 
scene is represented in a picture in the possession of Lord Petre, 
at Thorndon, in which the lady, whose attire is somewhat of Dutch 
fashion, is represented in the act of curtseying to her handsome 
and persevering suitor, who, notwithstanding that he is supposed 
to have just completed his journey through the soot, is attired in 
a rich white satin dress, slashed with pink. His dress seems to be 
Spanish: he wears large pink bows at the knee and on the shoes, 
which are of a singular shape; and on the floor is a Spanish hat, 
adorned by a white plume tipped with pink. It is not improbable 
that the proposal took place at Louvain, where the widowed 
Countess of Derwentwater and her son then resided. It was in 
_ the gay city of Brussels that Lady Newburgh took Charles Radcliffe 
for her second husband. He thus acquired a considerable income, 
and it enabled him to maintain the title of Count de Derwent, 
which he assumed on the death of his nephew. By his marriage 
he had three sons, namely, James Bartholomew Radcliffe, born in 
France 23rd August, 1725, who became Earl of Newburgh, and 
died on the 2nd day of January, 1786; Clement Radcliffe and 
Charles Radcliffe ; and four daughters, namely, Charlotte, Barbara, 
Thomasina, and Mary. His eldest son was thought to bear a 
great resemblance to the exiled house of Stuart, for whose service 
Charles Radcliffe ventured in 1733 to visit his native country. It 
_ would seem that a life of inactivity, not chequered by peril and 
adventure, was insupportable to him ; and, accordingly, after the 
