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The Hon. Robert Henry Clive (15 January 1789 – 20 January 1854) was a British Conservative Party politician. == Biography == Clive was born in the parish of St 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. Edward Herbert (''ne'' Clive), 2nd Earl of Powis, was his elder brother.〔() History of Parliament Online article.〕 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. Clive sat as Member of Parliament for Ludlow from 1818 to 1832〔 (alongside his brother, then known as Viscount Clive) and for Shropshire South from 1832 to 1854. 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 DL and JP for the county of Shropshire and JP 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. It was at a directors' meeting of the latter, on 30 December 1853, that he was fatally taken ill.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Clive (1789–1854)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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