Clotworthy

Not to be confused with Clatworthy.

Clotworthy is a surname derived from Clotworthy near Wembworthy, Devon, England.^[1] The family inherited the manor of Rashleigh in Wembworthy in the 16th century. Sir Hugh Clotworthy (1569–1630) gained land in Ireland in the Plantation of Ulster^[1] and built Antrim Castle there. Clotworthy was used as a given name by his descendants.

Surname

• Bob Clotworthy (1931–2018), an American Olympic diver
• John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene (died 1665) an Anglo-Irish politician, son of Sir Hugh Clotworthy
• Pauline Clotworthy (1912–2004), an Irish teacher of fashion design
• Robert Clotworthy (born 1955), an American actor and voice actor
• Sarah Clotworthy Stevenson (1824–1885) First Lady of West Virginia, 1869-1871
• William Clotworthy (1926–2021), an American author and television censor

Given name

• Many Viscounts and Earls Massereene (surname Skeffington) descended from John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene
  • Clotworthy Skeffington, 3rd Viscount Massereene (1661–1714), Anglo-Irish soldier and politician
  • Clotworthy Skeffington, 2nd Earl of Massereene (1742–1805), Anglo-Irish peer who was imprisoned in France for almost twenty years for enormous debts
  • Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene (1842–1905), Anglo-Irish peer
• Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford (1763–1825), born Clotworthy Taylor, Irish politician
• Clotworthy Soden, eighteenth century Irish Anglican priest
• Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown (1721–1785), Anglo-Irish courtier and peer