Robert Clive (1789–1854)
Viscount Clive Edward Romilly | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Robert Henry Clive 15 January 1789 St George's, Hanover Square, London, England |
Died | 20 January 1854 Shrewsbury, England | (aged 65)
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | |
Relations | Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (brother) |
Children | 6 |
Parent(s) | Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Lady Henrietta Herbert |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Robert Henry Clive (15 January 1789 – 20 January 1854)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.
Early life
Clive was born in the parish of St George's, Hanover Square, London,[2] a younger son of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis. His mother was Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis. Edward Herbert (ne Clive), 2nd Earl of Powis, was his elder brother.[3]
His paternal grandfather was
He was educated at
Career
Clive sat as one of the two
An agricultural landowner in Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Wales, he was an advocate of the abolition of the
He was also a
In 1809, Clive was commissioned as a Captain into the South Shropshire Militia.
A keen antiquary, Clive was author of Documents Concerned with the History of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers (1841), and president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1852.[2]
Clive was deputy-chairman of two early railway companies in Shropshire, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. At a directors' meeting of the latter, on 30 December 1853, he was taken seriously ill and never recovered, dying a few weeks later.[16]
Personal life
Clive married Lady Harriet Windsor, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth, in 1819. They had several children, including:[19]
- Henrietta Sarah Windsor-Clive (1820–1899), a watercolourist who married Edward Hussey of Scotney Castle in 1853.[20][21]
- Robert Windsor-Clive (1824–1859), also an MP for Ludlow and South Shropshire; he married Lady Mary Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford.[19]
- Mary Windsor-Clive (c. 1829–1873), who died unmarried.[19]
- George Windsor-Clive (1835–1918), MP for Ludlow; he married Gertrude Albertine, daughter of Charles Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton.[19]
- William Windsor Windsor-Clive (1837–1857), who died unmarried.[19]
- Victoria Alexandrina Windsor-Clive (1839–1920), who married the Rev. Edward Farington Clayton, Rector of Ludlow in 1874.[19]
After falling ill at a railway company directors' meeting, Clive died in Shrewsbury in January 1854, aged 65, at the nearby home of the Town Clerk. He was buried at Bromfield Parish Church, near his Oakly Park home near Ludlow.[16]
The following year the
References
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
- ^ a b c The Complete Peerage, Volume XII, Part II. St Catherine's Press, London. 1959. p. 801.
- ^ History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-77545-628-5. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ISBN 9780347000086. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ "Hundreds sign petition to remove 'Clive of India' statue in UK". India Today. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ^ He "was celebrated in so many subsequent histories as the founder of 'British India.'" Emma Rothschild, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History (Princeton UP, 2011) p. 45.
- ^ C. Brad Faught, Clive: Founder of British India (2013)
- ^ Lord Clive: The Founder of the British Empire in India, a Drama in Five Acts. St. Joseph's Industrial School Press. 1913.
- ISBN 9780312263829.
- ^ "Robert Clive".
- ^ "Robert Clive (1725–74) | Statue by John Tweed, 1912".
- ^ "Clive, Robert Henry (CLV807RH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
- ^ a b c d "Death of the Hon. R.H. Clive". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 27 January 1854. p. 4.
- ^ Newman & Pevsner 2006, p. 448.
- ^ Gladstone, E.W. (1953). The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Whitethorn Press. pp. 20–25.
- ^ a b c d e f Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets. London: Dean and Son. 1888. pp. 743–744. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ Trust, National. "The Hon. Sarah Henrietta Windsor-Clive (1820-1899) 792032". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "The Honourable Sarah Henrietta Windsor-Clive (1820–1899)". artuk.org. Art UK. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ "EARL OF PLYMOUTH, LANDOWNER, DEAD; Had Charge of 30,000 Acres mDescendant of Clive of India Held Wales Posts". The New York Times. 3 October 1943. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
Sources
- OCLC 70671576.