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Redditch People

The Windsor-Clives

The ancestors of the Barons Windsor supposedly Hewell Grange, Home of the
played a part in the early history of England as Windsor-Clives
Thanes (esquires) of Saxon England. Dominus Other
(trans. Master or owner; Other otherwise a noble.) (Source: Wikipeda)
flourished in the reign of Edward the Confessor
(1042 - 1066). A previous Other had been a
contemporary of Alfred the Great. Walter Fitzother of
Windsor was keeper of the royal Forest of Windsor
and is listed in the Domesday Book.The medieval
Windsors were always close to the monarch. They
also had the happy knack of choosing the right side,
thereby ensuring their survival and expansion. This
even applied to Andrews who despite losing Stanwell
probably ended up with more land than he had lost.

Source/Researched by: wikipedia

The Benevolent Windsor-Clives

The Windsor-Clives of Hewell Grange were very generous benefactors to the town of
Redditch. Amongst the bequests were:-

1814 - Earl of Plymouth gave to the village of Redditch a fine cow, 2 large sheep and
a large oxen and a cow was also sent to the surrounding poor at Tardebigge.
It was in celebration of the end of the Napoleonic war.

1817 - 6th Earl of Plymouth at his own expense caused an addition to be made to
the chapel, for the exclusive use of the poor.

1840 - The Hon. Robert and Lady Harriet Clive, erected a parsonage house at a cost
of between one and two thousand pounds which was attached to Tardebigge
vicarage.

1845 - Lady Harriet Clive laid the foundation stone of the National school at the top
of Peakman Street, which her husband Hon Robert Clive had given the land
for and the school opened in 1846.

1846 - The Hon R. H. Clive gave for division into garden allotments about 20 acres
of valuable land in Redditch.

1850 - Headless Cross was formed into an Ecclesiastical District, independent of
Tardebigge, Feckenham and Ipsley. The Hon. R. H. Clive gave about 5 acres
of land upon which the parsonage house was built. He also supplied all the
material for the erection of the building’

1853 - The Hon. R. H. Clive with his usual beneficence, offered land for the purpose
of a new cemetery.

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