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Robert Clive, governor of Bengal, was the eldest son of Richard and Rebecca Clive (nee Maskell) of Styche, Shropshire. He was born on 29 September 1725. In 1743 he was appointed a writer with the East India Company at Madras. He proved to be a quarrelsome colleague and suffered from 'melancholy' which was to plague him for most of his life.
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey, KB (September 29, 1725 - November 22, 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the soldier of fortune and commander who established the military supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is widely regarded as a key figure in the establishment of British India and of the ...
22 de feb. de 2021 · The decision to write a novel centring on Robert Clive and his time in India with Britain’s East India Company up to and including the Battle of Plassey in 1757 wasn’t obvious to us. Under our pseudonym Alex Rutherford, my partner and I had already completed a sextet of historical novels about the early Moghul emperors of India.
Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725–1774), army officer in the East India Company and administrator in India, was born on 29 September 1725 at Styche Hall, Moreton Say, near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the eldest of the thirteen children of Richard Clive (c.1693–1771), lawyer and MP, and his wife, Rebecca, daughter of Nathaniel Gaskell of Manchester.
Robert Clive. (1725–74). The real founder of Great Britain’s former empire in India was Robert Clive, an outstanding soldier and a fine administrator. He started his remarkable career as a writer, or clerk, for the British East India Company. Robert Clive was born on Sept. 29, 1725, in Shropshire, England.
Robert Clive’s (1725-74) first career was as a Writer (clerk) in the East India Company’s civil service at Madras. This ended in 1746, when it was taken over by the French. Clive became an ensign in the Company’s service the following year. He briefly returned to the civil establishment in 1749, before re-entering the military as a brevet ...
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, was born on September 29, 1725 in Shropshire, England to a family that was part of the class of the gentry. He died on November 22, 1774 in London.
