Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth

Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (caricature in Vanity Fair magazine April 5, 1906)

Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth GBE CB PC (* 27. August 1857 in Berkeley Square , London ; † 6. March 1923 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , which between 1890 and his death in 1923 Lord Lieutenant of Welsh county of Glamorgan as well as Paymaster General from 1890 to 1892 and also Mayor of Cardiff between 1895 and 1896 . He was later Minister for Public Works from 1902 to 1905.

Life

Family background, House of Lords and Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan

Windsor-Clive was the fourth child and only son of Robert Windsor-Clive , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1852 and his death in 1859 , and his wife, Mary Selina Louisa Bridgeman, daughter of George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford . After the death of his father he was orphaned at the age of two and inherited on November 9, 1869 at the age of twelve from his grandmother Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor, the title of Baron Windsor , of Stanwell in the County of Buckingham. When he came of age, this title was also associated with membership in the House of Lords , to which he belonged until his death.

He began his military service with the Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry , where he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1878, first lieutenant in 1880, and major in 1885 .

In 1890 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan as the successor to Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot and as such was representative of the respective British monarch in this Welsh county until his death .

Paymaster General and First Commissioner of Works

In 1890, Baron Windsor was appointed Paymaster General by Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury to succeed Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey , and held this post until the end of the Marquess of Salisbury's tenure on May 15. August 1892. In 1891 he was also appointed a member of the Privy Council (PC).

Baron Windsor, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Officer of the Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry between 1893 and 1906 , succeeded Patrick William Carey as Mayor of Cardiff in 1895 and remained in that capacity until he was succeeded by Ebenezer Beavan in 1896.

On July 11, 1902, Prime Minister Arthur Balfour appointed Baron Windsor, who also became a trustee of the National Gallery in 1900 , as Minister of Public Works (First Commissioner of Works) and held this government office until December 5, 1905.

Earl of Plymouth, marriage and offspring

Crypt of the Windsor-Clive family in Tardebigge Cemetery, Worcestershire

After leaving the government, he was elevated to Earl of Plymouth and Viscount Windsor , of St Fagan's in the County of Glamorgan, by a letters patent dated December 18, 1905 .

He was also awarded as Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1905 and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1918. He was also a High Steward at the University of Cambridge from 1919 until his death in 1923, as well as temporarily sub-prior of the Order of Saint John and also Chairman of the Trustee Council of the Tate Gallery .

On August 11, 1883, he married Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget, a daughter of the diplomat Augustus Berkeley Paget , who was envoy and ambassador to the Kingdom of Italy and ambassador to Austria-Hungary , and his wife, the writer Walburga von Hohenthal .

From this marriage three sons and one daughter were born. Since the eldest son and title contender Other Robert Windsor-Clive, Viscount Windsor, had died in 1908 at the age of 24, after his death in 1923 the second eldest son Ivor Miles inherited Windsor-Clive , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1922 and 1923 and later held some junior ministerial posts, the title of 2nd Earl of Plymouth and associated subordinate titles. At the same time, he also succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan and held this office until 1943.

The third eldest son, Archer Windsor-Clive, had died in Landrecies , France , on August 25, 1914, during World War I , while the second eldest child, the only daughter Phyllis Windsor-Clive, was married to Major Hugh Gordon Benton.

Web links

• Mr Robert Windsor-Clive at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment's Peerage
• Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Earl of Plymouth 1905-1923	Ivor Windsor-Clive
Harriet Windsor-Clive	Baron Windsor 1869-1923	Ivor Windsor-Clive