sentences:  He was educated at St Alban Hall, Oxford (1586), Gray's Inn (1588).In 1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight of the Shire) that year and was knighted by 1597.From 1597 to 1598 and also in 1601, Clifton was MP for Huntingdonshire.