Researching George Clifford
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6157 people with the Clifford surname? In that year Clifford was ranked number 679 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Clifford on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Clifford and the Clifford Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 10425 people with the Clifford surname in the UK? Clifford is now ranked number 554 for popularity in the UK. |
Clifford Family Tree Databases
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Some Famous People called George Clifford
George Clifford III
George Clifford III (7 January 1685, Amsterdam – 10 April 1760, Heemstede) was a wealthy Dutch banker and one of the directors of the Dutch East India Company. He is known for his keen interest in plants and gardens.
His summer estate Hartekamp, south of Haarlem in Heemstede near Bennebroek, had a rich variety of plants and he engaged the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné ("Carl Linnaeus"), who stayed at his estate from 1736 to 1738, to write Hortus Cliffortianus (1737), a masterpiece of early botanical literature published in 1738, and for which Georg Dionysius Ehret did the illustrations.
His grandfather, Englishman George Clifford I, moved from Stow (where his father was rector) to Amsterdam around 1640, beginning an Anglo-Dutch banking dynasty. Subsequent members of the Clifford Family were prominent leaders in Amsterdam.
The garden at Hartekamp was already quite famous before George Clifford bought the place in 1709. Under his ownership, the number of unusual plants grew exponentially. He had 4 hothouses built to house the many tropical plants that he collected through his business connections from all over the world. He was an important friend and seed supplier for botanist Herman Boerhaave, whose summer home (and garden) at Oud Poelgeest was just a short trip away by trekschuit along the Haarlem-Leiden canal known as the Leidsevaart.
In 1736 Clifford became famous for growing the first indoor banana tree, and for this reason Linnaeus was eager to work with him. Many specimens from Clifford's garden were also studied by Linnaeus for his Species Plantarum (1753).
Clifford died in 1760 and left the business and property to his sons. The banking house of Clifford under George Clifford Jr. fell in 1772 and the estate Hartekamp went out of the family in 1788. Since then the garden has declined and is currently used as a school campus.
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