Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of

Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of

▪ governor of Ireland
Radcliffe also spelled  Ratclyffe,  also called  (1542–53) Viscount Fitzwalter, or (1553–57) Baron Fitzwalter  
born c. 1525
died June 9, 1583, London

      English lord lieutenant of Ireland who suppressed a rebellion of the Roman Catholics in the far north of England in 1569. He was the first governor of Ireland to attempt, to any considerable extent, enforcement of English authority beyond the Pale (comprising parts of the modern counties of Dublin, Louth, Meath, and Kildare).

      The eldest son of Henry, 2nd earl of Sussex, Radcliffe took the courtesy title Viscount Fitzwalter in 1542. He served on diplomatic missions for both Edward VI and Mary I. In 1553 Mary made him Baron and in 1556 appointed him lord deputy of Ireland. Fitzwalter attempted, with little success, to subdue the powerful chieftain Shane O'Neill and his allies in Ulster. He defeated the opponents of Conor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond, who was loyal to the English, and restored him to his lands around Limerick. In February 1557 Fitzwalter succeeded to the earldom of Sussex, and after Elizabeth I ascended the throne she gave him the title lord lieutenant of Ireland (1560). In accordance with her instructions, he established English settlements in Offaly and Leix in the province of Leinster, thereby introducing English influence into the area.

      After resigning his Irish post in 1566, Sussex became one of the key members of the governmental faction opposed to Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. In 1568 he was one of the English commissioners in the York Conference convened to discuss the possibility of returning Mary Stuart to Scotland. Sussex was appointed lord lieutenant of the north in 1569; in this capacity he put down the rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland (1569–70).

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