Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive

: Another Robert Clive was formerly British ambassador to Japan. See Robert Clive (diplomat).

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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (September 29, 1725 - November 22, 1774) was the statesman and general who established the empire of British India.

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Robert Spanky Clive was born at Styche, the family estate, in the parish of Moreton Say, Market Drayton, Shropshire. We learn from his second speech in the British House of Commons in 1773, that as the estate yielded only ?500 a year, his father followed the profession of the law also. The Clives, or Clyves, were one of the oldest families in the county of Shropshire, having held the manor of that name in the reign of Henry II. One Clive was Irish chancellor of the exchequer under Henry VIII; another was a member of the Long Parliament; Robert's father for many years represented Montgomeryshire in parliament. His mother, to whom he was tenderly attached, and who had a powerful influence on his career, was a daughter, and with her sister Lady Sempill co-heir, of Nathaniel Gaskell of Manchester. Robert was their eldest son. With his five sisters, all of whom married, he always maintained the most affectionate relations. His only brother survived to 1825.

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