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Robert George Windsor-Clive

1st Earl of Plymouth (3rd creation)

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.

1857-1923

Robert George Windsor-Clive - 1st
Earl of Plymouth.
(Source: Wikipeda)

Source/Researched by: wikipedia

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).

m. (1883) Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline Paget.

Children: Other Robert (1884-1908)

Phyllis (1886 -1971)

Ivor Miles (1889- 1943) 2nd earl

Lt 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.

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