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Edward Henry Clive, DL, JP (23 September 1837 – 1 March 1916) was a British soldier and Liberal politician, the son of George Clive and Ann Sybella Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet.Profile
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Military career

Educated at Harrow,"Clive, Gen. Edward Henry" in ''

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'', vol. II, p. 206. Clive was commissioned as an ensign in the

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on 18 August 1854 and then transferred to the

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as ensign and lieutenant on 8 December that year. He served in the Eastern campaign from 1855 to 1856, after the fall of Sevastopol; this was his only war service. He was appointed an Instructor of Musketry in his regiment on 30 April 1857 and purchased his promotion to lieutenant and captain on 17 July. He was promoted to captain and lieutenant-colonel, again by purchase, on 8 March 1864, and on completion of the qualifying period of service was granted brevet rank as colonel on 4 March 1876. He became major in the Grenadier Guards on 11 October 1879 and lieutenant-colonel on 7 August 1880, and commanded the regiment from 1880 until he was placed on half-pay, 27 July 1885, and granted local rank as a brigadier-general while commanding the Brigade of Guards in Cyprus. Clive was appointed Commandant at the Staff College, Sandhurst, on 21 December 1885 and was promoted to major-general on 26 December. He became Governor and Commandant of the

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on 12 August 1888, remaining in that post until 1893. He was promoted lieutenant-general on 1 April 1892 and general on 12 January 1898, and retired on 19 December 1898. On 30 December 1906 he was made colonel of the King's (Liverpool Regiment).

Political career

Clive succeeded his father (who had been unseated on petition) as Member of Parliament for

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in 1869, but only held the seat until 1871, when he resigned through appointment as

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. He never returned to the

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. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of

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, and Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire and County Mayo.

Family

Clive married in 1867 Isabel Webb, daughter of Daniel Hale Webb. They had five sons and four daughters: *Sybil Mary Clive (1869–1961), who married in 1896 Captain Clifton Charles Orby Gascoigne (1870–1940) *Kathleen Isabel Clive (1873–1961) *Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive (1874–1959) *Laura Cicely Clive (1876–1954), who married in 1902 Brigadier-General Sir Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne (1873–1944),

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is their grandson. *Captain Edward Archer Bolton Clive (1878–1928) *Arthur Chaloner Clive (1879–1880) *Judith Evelyn Clive (1880–1960), who married in 1911 Reverend Nixon Chetwode Ram (d.1952) *Richard Alfred Clive (1882–1964) *Henry Ambrose Clive (1885–1960) Clive lived at 25

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, SW; at Perrystone Court,

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; and at

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. He was a member of the

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and the

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. He died in March 1916, aged 78. His wife survived him by six years and died in April 1922.

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