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The Hon. '''Robert Henry Clive''' (15 January 1789 – 20 January 1854)<ref name="rayment-ludlow">{{Rayment-hc|l|4|date=March 2012}}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician.
| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable|The Hon.]]
| name = Robert Clive
| honorific_suffix = [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] [[Justice of the Peace|JP]]
| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Shropshire South]]
| term_start = 1832
| term_end = 1854
| predecessor = ''New constituency''
| alongside = [[Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland|The Earl of Darlington]], [[Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford|Viscount Newport]]
| successor = [[Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford|Viscount Newport]]<br>[[Robert Windsor-Clive (MP)|Robert Windsor-Clive]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)|Ludlow]]
| term_start1 = 1818
| term_end1 = 1832
| predecessor1 = [[Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis|Viscount Clive]]<br>[[Henry Clive]]
| alongside1 = [[Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis|Viscount Clive]]
| successor1 = [[Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis|Viscount Clive]]<br>[[Edward Romilly]]
| birth_name = Robert Henry Clive
| birth_date = {{birth date|1789|01|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[St George's, Hanover Square]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1854|01|20|1789|01|15|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Shrewsbury]], England
| alma_mater = [[St John's College, Cambridge]]
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| parents = [[Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis]]<br>[[Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis|Lady Henrietta Herbert]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor|Lady Harriet Windsor]]<br>|1819}}
| children = 6
| relations = [[Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis]] (brother)
}}
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'''Robert Henry Clive''' (15 January 1789 – 20 January 1854)<ref name="rayment-ludlow">{{Rayment-hc|l|4|date=March 2012}}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] politician.


== Biography ==
== Early life==
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Clive was born in the parish of [[St George's, Hanover Square]], [[London]],<ref name=compeerage>{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume XII, Part II|year=1959|publisher=St Catherine's Press, London|page=801}}</ref> a younger son of [[Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis]]. His mother was [[Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis|Lady Henrietta]], daughter of [[Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis]]. [[Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis|Edward Herbert (''ne'' Clive), 2nd Earl of Powis]], was his elder brother.<ref name="HistofParlt">{{cite web |title=CLIVE, Hon. Robert Henry (1789-1854), of Oakly Park, Salop. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-hon-robert-henry-1789-1854 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=[[History of Parliament Online]] |access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref>


His paternal grandfather was [[Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive]] ("Clive of India"),<ref name="Henty2012">{{cite book|author=G. A. Henty|title=With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an Empire|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=L06B2QZNVUcC|access-date= 9 June 2020|date= 1 March 2012|publisher= The Floating Press|isbn=978-1-77545-628-5}}</ref><ref name="Watney1974">{{cite book|author=John Basil Watney|title=Clive of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0Y9AAAAMAAJ|access-date=9 June 2020|year=1974|publisher=Saxon House |isbn= 9780347000086}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/hundreds-sign-petition-to-remove-clive-of-india-statue-in-uk-1686990-2020-06-09 | title= Hundreds sign petition to remove 'Clive of India' statue in UK | publisher=India Today | date=9 June 2020 | access-date=9 June 2020}}</ref> the first British [[List of governors of Bengal|Governor]] of the [[Bengal Presidency]] who is credited for laying the foundation of the [[East India Company|British East India Company]] rule in Bengal.<ref>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.</ref><ref>C. Brad Faught, ''Clive: Founder of British India'' (2013)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FW3uCuNRHe0C|title = Lord Clive: The Founder of the British Empire in India, a Drama in Five Acts|year = 1913 |publisher = St. Joseph's Industrial School Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=FLteaGrud0YC&q=%22founder%20of%20british%20india%22 |isbn = 9780312263829|title = Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India|date = 12 August 2000|publisher = Macmillan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://southasia.ucla.edu/history-politics/british-india/robert-clive/|title = Robert Clive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/london-statues-and-monuments/robert-clive/|title=Robert Clive (1725–74) &#124; Statue by John Tweed, 1912}}</ref>
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Clive was born in the parish of [[St George's, Hanover Square]], [[London]],<ref name=compeerage>{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume XII, Part II|year=1959|publisher=St Catherine's Press, London|page=801}}</ref> a younger son of [[Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis]], son of [[Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive]] ("Clive of India"). His mother was [[Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis|Lady Henrietta]], daughter of [[Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis]]. [[Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis|Edward Herbert (''ne'' Clive), 2nd Earl of Powis]], was his elder brother.<ref name=HistofParlt>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-hon-robert-henry-1789-1854] History of Parliament Online article.</ref> He was educated at [[Eton College]] and was at [[St John's College, Cambridge]] from 1807 to 1809, when he graduated [[Master of Arts|M.A.]]. He was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] in 1835.<ref>{{acad|id=CLV807RH|name=Clive, Robert Henry}}</ref>


He was educated at [[Eton College]] and was at [[St John's College, Cambridge]] from 1807 to 1809, when he graduated [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] He was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] in 1835.<ref>{{acad|id=CLV807RH|name=Clive, Robert Henry}}</ref>
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Clive sat as [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)|Ludlow]] from 1818 to 1832<ref name="rayment-ludlow" /> (alongside his brother, then known as [[Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis|Viscount Clive]]) and for [[South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Shropshire South]] from 1832 to 1854.<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885
|origyear=1977
|edition= 2nd
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|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-26-4
|page=448
}}</ref><ref>{{Rayment-hc|s|3|date=March 2012}}</ref>


==Career==
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An agricultural landowner in Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Wales, he was an advocate of the abolition of the [[Corn Laws]] during [[Sir Robert Peel]]'s administration.<ref name=ShrewsChron>{{cite news|title=Death of the Hon. R.H. Clive|work=Shrewsbury Chronicle|date=27 January 1854|page=4}}</ref> He was appointed to the commission investigating the [[Rebecca Riots]] in south Wales in October 1843.<ref name=HistofParlt />
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Clive sat as one of the two [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] for [[Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)|Ludlow]] from 1818 to 1832,<ref name="rayment-ludlow" /> alongside his brother, then known as [[Edward Clive, 2nd Earl of Powis|Viscount Clive]], and layer for [[South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Shropshire South]] from 1832 to 1854.<ref name="craig1832-1885">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-year=1977 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=448}}</ref><ref>{{Rayment-hc|s|3|date=March 2012}}</ref>


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An agricultural landowner in Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Wales, he was an advocate of the abolition of the [[Corn Laws]] during [[Sir Robert Peel]]'s administration.<ref name=ShrewsChron>{{cite news|title=Death of the Hon. R.H. Clive|work=Shrewsbury Chronicle|date=27 January 1854|page=4}}</ref> He was appointed to the commission investigating the [[Rebecca Riots]] in south Wales in October 1843.<ref name=HistofParlt /> His home was [[Oakly Park]] at [[Bromfield, Shropshire|Bromfield]], a house redesigned by his friend, [[Charles Robert Cockerell]].{{sfn|Newman|Pevsner|2006|p=448}}
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He was also a [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] and [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] for the county of Shropshire and [[Justice of the Peace|JP]] for Worcestershire.<ref name=ShrewsChron />


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He was also a [[Deputy Lieutenant]] and [[Justice of the Peace]] for the county of Shropshire and a Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire.<ref name=ShrewsChron />
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Clive was commissioned Captain in the South Shropshire Militia in 1809.<ref name=HistofParlt /> He was later in the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanding a troop at [[Bishop's Castle]], from 1817 to 1828.<ref name=Gladstone>{{cite book|last=Gladstone|first=E.W.|title=The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment|year=1953|publisher=Whitethorn Press|pages=20–25}}</ref> He was Colonel commanding the [[Worcestershire Yeomanry]] from 1833 until his death.<ref name=compeerage />


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In 1809, Clive was commissioned as a Captain into the South Shropshire Militia.<ref name=HistofParlt /> He continued to serve after it became the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanding a troop at [[Bishop's Castle]] from 1817 to 1828.<ref name=Gladstone>{{cite book|last=Gladstone|first=E.W.|title=The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment|year=1953|publisher=Whitethorn Press|pages=20–25}}</ref> He was Colonel commanding the [[Worcestershire Yeomanry]] from 1833 until his death.<ref name=compeerage />
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A keen antiquary, he was author of ''Documents Concerned with the History of Ludlow and the Lords Marchers'' (1841), and president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association in 1852.<ref name=compeerage />


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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.<ref name=compeerage />
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Clive was deputy-chairman of two early railway companies in Shropshire, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. It was at a directors' meeting of the latter, on 30 December 1853, that he was fatally taken ill.<ref name=ShrewsChron />


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Clive was deputy-chairman of two early railway companies in Shropshire, the [[Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway|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.<ref name=ShrewsChron />
==Family==
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Clive married [[Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor|Lady Harriet]], daughter of [[Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth]], in 1819. They had several children, including [[Robert Windsor-Clive (MP)|Robert Windsor-Clive]] and [[George Windsor-Clive (1835–1918)|George Windsor-Clive]]. 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 [[St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield|Bromfield Parish Church]], near his Oakley Park home near Ludlow.<ref name=ShrewsChron />


==Personal life==
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The following year the [[Baron Windsor|barony of Windsor]], which had fallen into [[abeyance]] on his brother-in-law's death in 1833, was called out of abeyance in favour of his widow, Harriett, who became the thirteenth Baroness Windsor in her own right. She died in November 1869, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by her grandson, [[Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth|Robert Windsor-Clive]], who was created [[Earl of Plymouth]] in 1905.
Clive married [[Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor|Lady Harriet Windsor]], daughter of [[Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth]], in 1819. They had several children, including:<ref name="Debrett's1888"/>

* Henrietta Sarah Windsor-Clive (1820–1899), a watercolourist who married Edward Hussey of [[Scotney Castle]] in 1853.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Trust |first1=National |title=The Hon. Sarah Henrietta Windsor-Clive (1820-1899) 792032 |url=https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/792032 |website=www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Honourable Sarah Henrietta Windsor-Clive (1820–1899) |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-honourable-sarah-henrietta-windsor-clive-18201899-220754 |website=artuk.org |publisher=[[Art UK]] |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Robert Windsor-Clive (MP)|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]].<ref name="Debrett's1888"/>
* Mary Windsor-Clive ({{Circa|1829}}–1873), who died unmarried.<ref name="Debrett's1888"/>
* [[George Windsor-Clive (1835–1918)|George Windsor-Clive]] (1835–1918), MP for Ludlow; he married Gertrude Albertine, daughter of [[Charles Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton]].<ref name="Debrett's1888"/>
* William Windsor Windsor-Clive (1837–1857), who died unmarried.<ref name="Debrett's1888"/>
* Victoria Alexandrina Windsor-Clive (1839–1920), who married the Rev. Edward Farington Clayton, Rector of Ludlow in 1874.<ref name="Debrett's1888">{{cite book |title=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 |date=1888 |publisher=Dean and Son |location=London |pages=743–744 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnaIMbumv8MC |access-date=31 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

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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 [[St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bromfield|Bromfield Parish Church]], near his [[Oakly Park]] home near Ludlow.<ref name=ShrewsChron />

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The following year the [[Baron Windsor|barony of Windsor]], which had fallen into [[abeyance]] on his brother-in-law's death in 1833, was called out of abeyance in favour of his widow, Harriett, who became the thirteenth Baroness Windsor in her own right. She died in November 1869, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by her grandson, [[Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth|Robert Windsor-Clive]], who was created [[Earl of Plymouth]] in 1905.<ref name="EoPObit1943">{{cite news |title=EARL OF PLYMOUTH, LANDOWNER, DEAD; Had Charge of 30,000 Acres mDescendant of Clive of India Held Wales Posts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/10/03/archives/earl-of-plymouth-landowner-dead-had-charge-of-30000-acres.html |access-date=31 May 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 October 1943}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==Sources==
* {{cite book
| first1 = John | last1 = Newman | first2 = Nikolaus | last2 = Pevsner
| authorlink1 = John Newman (architectural historian)
| authorlink2 = Nikolaus Pevsner
| title = Shropshire
| series = Buildings of England
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| year = 2006
| publisher = [[Yale University Press]]
| location = New Haven, US and London
| isbn = 978-0-300-12083-7
| oclc = 70671576 | url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70671576
}}


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The Hon.
Robert Clive
DL JP
Member of Parliament for Shropshire South
In office
1832–1854
Preceded byNew constituency
Succeeded byViscount Newport
Robert Windsor-Clive
Member of Parliament for Ludlow
In office
1818–1832
Serving with Viscount Clive
Preceded byViscount Clive
Henry Clive
Succeeded byViscount Clive
Edward Romilly
Personal details
Born
Robert Henry Clive

(1789-01-15)15 January 1789
St George's, Hanover Square, London, England
Died20 January 1854(1854-01-20) (aged 65)
Shrewsbury, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
​
​
(m. 1819)​
RelationsEdward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (brother)
Children6
Parent(s)Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
Lady Henrietta Herbert
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge

Robert Henry Clive (15 January 1789 – 20 January 1854)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

Early life[edit]

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 Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive ("Clive of India"),[4][5][6] the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency who is credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company rule in Bengal.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

He was educated at Eton College and was at St John's College, Cambridge from 1807 to 1809, when he graduated M.A. He was awarded an honorary LL.D. in 1835.[13]

Career[edit]

Clive sat as one of the two Members of Parliament for Ludlow from 1818 to 1832,[1] alongside his brother, then known as Viscount Clive, and layer for Shropshire South from 1832 to 1854.[14][15]

An agricultural landowner in Shropshire, Worcestershire, and Wales, he was an advocate of the abolition of the Corn Laws during Sir Robert Peel's administration.[16] He was appointed to the commission investigating the Rebecca Riots in south Wales in October 1843.[3] His home was Oakly Park at Bromfield, a house redesigned by his friend, Charles Robert Cockerell.[17]

He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the county of Shropshire and a Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire.[16]

In 1809, Clive was commissioned as a Captain into the South Shropshire Militia.[3] He continued to serve after it became the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanding a troop at Bishop's Castle from 1817 to 1828.[18] He was Colonel commanding the Worcestershire Yeomanry from 1833 until his death.[2]

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[edit]

Clive married Lady Harriet Windsor, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth, in 1819. They had several children, including:[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 barony of Windsor, which had fallen into abeyance on his brother-in-law's death in 1833, was called out of abeyance in favour of his widow, Harriett, who became the thirteenth Baroness Windsor in her own right. She died in November 1869, aged 72, and was succeeded in the barony by her grandson, Robert Windsor-Clive, who was created Earl of Plymouth in 1905.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
  2. ^ a b c The Complete Peerage, Volume XII, Part II. St Catherine's Press, London. 1959. p. 801.
  3. ^ a b c "CLIVE, Hon. Robert Henry (1789-1854), of Oakly Park, Salop". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  4. ^ G. A. Henty (1 March 2012). With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an Empire. The Floating Press. ISBN 978-1-77545-628-5. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  5. ^ John Basil Watney (1974). Clive of India. Saxon House. ISBN 9780347000086. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Hundreds sign petition to remove 'Clive of India' statue in UK". India Today. 9 June 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ C. Brad Faught, Clive: Founder of British India (2013)
  9. ^ Lord Clive: The Founder of the British Empire in India, a Drama in Five Acts. St. Joseph's Industrial School Press. 1913.
  10. ^ Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. Macmillan. 12 August 2000. ISBN 9780312263829.
  11. ^ "Robert Clive".
  12. ^ "Robert Clive (1725–74) | Statue by John Tweed, 1912".
  13. ^ "Clive, Robert Henry (CLV807RH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  14. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 448. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  15. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  16. ^ a b c d "Death of the Hon. R.H. Clive". Shrewsbury Chronicle. 27 January 1854. p. 4.
  17. ^ Newman & Pevsner 2006, p. 448.
  18. ^ Gladstone, E.W. (1953). The Shropshire Yeomanry 1795-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Whitethorn Press. pp. 20–25.
  19. ^ 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.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Ludlow
1818–1832
With: Viscount Clive 		Succeeded by
New constituency Member of Parliament for Shropshire South
1832–1854
With: The Earl of Darlington 1832–1842
Viscount Newport 1842–1854 		Succeeded by
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