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Lt.-Col. Hon. Robert Clive (14 August 1769 – 28 July 1833) was a British soldier and Tory politician who was a Member of Parliament for Ludlow from 1794–1807.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Clive was born at Styche Hall, near Market Drayton, Shropshire, the ninth and youngest child of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive and his wife, Margaret Maskelyne. Only four siblings, one brother and three sisters, survived to adulthood. His father, known as "Clive of India," was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency and considered the founder of British India.[2][3][4]
The Clives were an old Shropshire family that had resided in the county since the time of Henry II. They took their name from nearby Clive, Shropshire and had been landed gentry at Stych since the 15th century, until Robert's father was created a Baron in the Peerage of Ireland in 1762.[5]
Clive was educated at Eton from 1781-6 and at Christ Church, Oxford.[1]
Career
[edit]After his father's death in 1774, his eldest (and only surviving) brother, Edward, succeeded as the 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey, County Clare in the Peerage of Ireland. Edward sat in the House of Commons for Ludlow for two decades until 1794, when he was created Baron Clive in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, entitling him to a seat in the British House of Lords. Edward, who married Lady Henrietta Herbert in 1784, he was further elevated in 1804 as Earl of Powis and Viscount Clive, a revival of the title which had become extinct on the death of his brother-in-law, George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis.
He voted for the abolition of the slave trade in 1796, but the bill did not pass until Slave Trade Act 1807.
Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet
He served in Earl of Moira (later Marquess of Hastings), Commander-in-Chief of India,
13 September 1791
The London Gazette, Issue 13343, Page 522
He 21st (Royal North British Fusilier) Regiment of Foot, served in the 12th Dragoons at the Siege of Bastia
War of the First Coalition
French Revolutionary Wars
2nd lt. 21 Ft. 1791; lt. 12 Drag. 1791; capt. new co. ft. 1793; maj. 110 Ft. 1794; half-pay 1795, brevet lt.-col. 1800-d.
He resided at Oakly Park, Bromfield, Shropshire, and later at Styche Hall, Shropshire, and No. 24, James Street, Buckingham Gate. He died unmarried at his house in London, aged 63.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Thorne, R. G., ed. (1986). "CLIVE, Hon. Robert (1769–1833), of Oakly Park, Salop.". The House of Commons 1790–1820. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Faught, C. Brad (31 January 2013). Clive: Founder of British India. Potomac Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61234-168-2. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789). The Peerage Of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom. Moore. p. 82. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Peerage of the British Empire: With the Arms of the Peers. Saunders. p. 400. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 3205–3206. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ "Death". London Evening Standard. 29 July 1833. p. 4. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
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