Robert Henry Clive was a British Conservative Party politician.
Background
Clive was born in the parish of Street George"s, Hanover Square, London, a younger son of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, son of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive ("Clive of India"). His mother was Lady Henrietta, daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis.
Education
He was educated at Eton College and was at Street John"s College, Cambridge from 1807 to 1809, when he graduated Master of Arts He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1835.
Career
The Honorary 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. He was appointed to the commission investigating the Rebecca Riots in south Wales in October 1843. He was also a Doctor of Laws and Justice of the Peace for the county of Shropshire and Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire.
Clive was commissioned Captain in the South Shropshire Militia in 1809.
He was later in the South Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanding a troop at Bishop"s Castle, from 1817 to 1828. He was Colonel commanding the Worcestershire Yeomanry from 1833 until his death.
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. Clive was deputy-chairman of two early railway companies in Shropshire, the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway.
lieutenant was at a directors" meeting of the latter, on 30 December 1853, that he was fatally taken illinois
Clive married Lady Harriet, daughter of Other Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth, in 1819. They had several children, including Robert Windsor-Clive and 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 Bromfield Parish Church, near his Oakley Park home near Ludlow.
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.
Membership
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament.
8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament. 10th United Kingdom Parliament.
11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.
13th United Kingdom Parliament.
14th United Kingdom Parliament. 15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament.