RADCLIFFE, Sir Edward (1550/9-1643), of Elstow, Beds.; later of Barton, Cambs., Woodham Walter, Essex and Gorhambury, nr. St. Albans, Herts.

b. 1550 /9,CPR, 1558-60, p. 2; CSP Dom. 1640-1, p. 75. 2nd s. of Sir Humphrey Radcliffe† of Elstow (d.1566) and Isabel, da. and h. of Edmund Harvey of Elstow. Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 64-5. m. (1) 1581/3, Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Petre† of Ingatestone, Essex, wid. of John Gostwick of Willington, Beds., s.p.; Ibid. The marriage took place between Gostwick’s death on 7 June 1581 and the probate of the will on 10 Oct. 1583, see Beds. RO, ABP/W1583/134; C142/194/9. (2) 30 May 1594, Jane (bur. 1 Dec. 1633), da. of (Sir) Francis Hynde† of Madingley, Cambs., wid. of William West of Marsworth, Bucks. and John Catesby of Newnham, Goldington, Beds., s.p.; Vis. Beds. 64-5; F.A. Blaydes, Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 121; PROB 11/80, f. 141. (3) 22 May 1634, Eleanor (d. 20 Jan. 1667), da. of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley, Yorks., wid. of Sir Henry Lee, 1st bt. of Quarendon, Bucks., s.p. Vis. Beds. 64-5; Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 140-1; CP (earl of Sussex). suc. bro. Thomas† by 1586, mother 1594, cos. as 6th earl of Sussex 1629; E112/68/4; PROB 6/3, f. 195; CP (earl of Sussex). Kntd. by 30 May 1594. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 90; Blaydes, 121. d. c. July 1643. HMC 7th Rep. 444. sig. Edw[ard] Radclyffe.