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Redditch People
Other Archer Windsor
6th Earl of Plymouth
The Windsors, and Windsor-Clives were English
nobleman who owned and lived at the Hewell Grange
estate in Tardebigge, Worcestershire.
They owned vast area of what we now know as
Redditch, but were also generous beneficiaries giving
both land and monies as the town grew and expanded.
1789-1833
Other Archer Windsor - 6th Earl of
Plymouth.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Source/Researched by: wikipedia
Life and Times of Other Archer Windsor
Other Archer Windsor 6th earl of Plymouth
Only son of Other Hickman and Sarah; he had two sisters. Lady Mary who married the
Marquess of Downshire, an Irish peerage and Lady Harriet who married Robert Clive son
of the earl of Powis and grandson of Clive of India.
Inherited title aged 10. His widowed mother, Sarah, Dowager Countess of Plymouth m.
(1800) William 1st earl Amherst. Other Archer would have been exposed to Amherst's
court and political connections.
Other Archer married (1811) Lady Mary Sackville, elder daughter of John 3rd duke of
Dorset. There was no issue. When Sara Dowager countess died in 1838 Lady Mary
married (1839) Other Archer's stepfather William 1st earl of Amherst.
Other Archer was prominent in the creation of the Worcestershire Yeomanry Division that
fought in Spain. At the time of his death he was Colonel of the Worcestershire Yeomanry
Cavalry. He was fond of hunting and kept a pack and a large stud at Hewell.
In 1832 he entertained the Duchess of Kent, together with her daughter Victoria, at
Hewell. He died at Deptford aboard his yacht, apparently from apoplexy, having dined
with his countess at his residence in Grosvenor Square, London. He is commemorated by
the obelisk on the Lickey Hills which is, or was, visible from Bromsgrove.
With Other Archer's death the title of earl of Plymouth, but not baron Windsor (that title
was held in abeyance until 1855), passed first to the oldest surviving uncle the Hon and
Rev. Andrews (1764- 1837), a priest of holy orders and then to another uncle Henry
(1768-1843). Henry married Anne Copson (1798) but there was no issue.
On Henry's death the earldom of Plymouth became extinct.
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