Background
Percy Clive was the eldest son of Charles Meysey Bolton Clive of Whitfield, Herefordshire, by his marriage to Lady Katherine Feilding.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Percy Clive was the eldest son of Charles Meysey Bolton Clive of Whitfield, Herefordshire, by his marriage to Lady Katherine Feilding.
He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and entered the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant in 1891.
He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire in December 1894, and was attached to the Niger Field Force from 1897 to 1899 based in Lagos, rising to the rank of captain. In May 1899 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He did not return to England to take his seat until February 1902, and in June that year was Private Secretary for Parliamentary purposes to Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India.
In December 1903 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to East G Pretyman, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.
He returned to Parliament at a by-election in January 1908, and remained Ross"s Member of Parliament until his death. Following a merger of the Unionist parties in 1912 he became a Conservative.
He returned to the army in World War I and was wounded twice. As Lieutenant-Colonel of the Grenadier Guards he was killed in action when attached to the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 April 1918 at Bucquoy.
Memorial services were held on 17 April at Street Margaret"s, Westminster and Hereford Cathedral.
His papers were deposited in the King"s College London archives in 1997.
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He was elected to the Commons as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the Ross division of Herefordshire in the "khaki election" of 1900, while fighting in the Second Boer War.