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Windsor-Clives Redditch Heritage

Robert George Windsor-Clive

1st Earl of Plymouth

1857 - 1923

Life and Times of Robert George Windsor-
Clive

Son of Robert and Mary Selina was known as Lord Windsor
and thus 14th baron Windsor on Lady Harriet's, his
grandmother, death.

In 1905 the title earl of Plymouth was brought out of
abeyance in his favour thus he became 1st earl of Plymouth
(3rd creation). Robert George Windsor-Clive. 1 st
Earl of Plymouth
m. (1883) Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget.
(Source: Wikipeda)
Children: Other Robert (1884-1908)

Phyllis (1886 -1971)

Ivor Miles (1889- 1943) 2nd earl

Rt Hon Archer (1890-1914) 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards; KIA Landrecies
France 25th August 1914.

Educated Eton and St John's Cambridge

Conservative politician Paymaster -General under Salisbury 1890-92; First Commissioner
for Works 1902-05 under Arthur Balfour. During this tenure The Mall was converted into
the present processional carriageway and plans passed for Queen Victoria memorial
outside Buckingham Palace.

He was responsible for the purchase of The Crystal Palace for the nation and was Mayor
of Cardiff 1895-96

Originally commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1878, Windsor-
Clive would hold a number of Honorary Colonelships.

Baroness Windsor gave 4 acres of land to construct a cemetery for Redditch bordering
what was to become Cemetery Lane, 2 acres were given by Lord Windsor and in 1906 the
earl of Plymouth gave another 5 acres.

When Robert George came of age in August 1878 there was great rejoicing in places as
far apart as:- Hewell, Bromsgrove and Redditch in Worcestershire; Bromfield, Knowbury
and Ludlow in Shropshire; Dyserth and Meliden in Flintshire (now Denbighshire);
Caerphilly, Rudrey, Grangetown, St Fagans and Penarth in Glamorganshire.

At Hewell the great day was summoned in by the peeling of bells at Tardebigge church,
firing of salvos by a small battery of field artillery.

250 people were invited to a luncheon reception at the grange, they arrived in carriages
travelling down roads lined with flags and flowers.

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