Percy Archer Clive,
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army
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officer and
Liberal Unionist Party
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politician.
Percy Clive was the eldest son of Charles Meysey Bolton Clive of
Whitfield, Herefordshire, by his marriage to Lady Katherine Feilding, daughter of
William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh
William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh, 6th Earl of Desmond, GCH, PC (25 March 1796 – 25 June 1865), styled Viscount Feilding between 1799 and 1800, was a British peer and courtier.
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Feilding was the eldest ...
. He was educated at
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and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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, and was commissioned into the
Grenadier Guards
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as a second lieutenant in 1891. He was appointed as a
Deputy Lieutenant of
Herefordshire
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in December 1894,
and was attached to the Niger Field Force from 1897 to 1899 based in
Lagos
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, rising to the rank of captain.
[ In May 1899 he was elected a fellow of the ]Royal Geographical Society
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.
He was elected to the Commons
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as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ross division of Herefordshire
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in the "khaki election" of 1900, while fighting in the Second Boer War
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. He did not return to England to take his seat until February 1902, and in June that year was Private Secretary for Parliamentary purposes to Lord George Hamilton
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, Secretary of State for India
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. In December 1903 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary
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to E G Pretyman, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty
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.
He was unseated at the 1906 general election, which saw the Liberal Party
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win a landslide victory. He returned to Parliament
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at a by-election in January 1908, and remained Ross's MP until his death. Following a merger of the Unionist parties in 1912 he became a Conservative
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.
He returned to the army in World War I and was wounded twice. Clive was awarded the Legion of Honour
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, and the Croix de Guerre
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, and was twice Mentioned in Despatches
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. As lieutenant-colonel of the Grenadier Guards
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he was killed in action when attached to the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers
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, 5 April 1918 at Bucquoy
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. Memorial services were held on 17 April at St Margaret's, Westminster
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and Hereford Cathedral
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.[ He is commemorated on the ]Arras Memorial
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. Clive is commemorated on Panel 8 of the Parliamentary War Memorial
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in Westminster Hall, one of 22 MPs that died during World War I to be named on that memorial. Clive is one of 19 MPs who fell in the war who are commemorated by heraldic shields in the Commons Chamber. A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style illuminated
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book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which includes a short biographical account of the life and death of Clive.
His elder son Major Meysey George Dallas Clive (1907–1943) was killed with the Grenadier Guards in North Africa on 1 May 1943. His younger son Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive (8 September 1910 – August 1938) was a British rower who won a gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in action.
Life
Born in Herefordshire, Cli ...
(1910–1938) won a gold medal for rowing at the 1932 Olympics and was a member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, killed in action in August 1938.
Some of his military papers were deposited in the King's College London
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archives in 1997 but his family retain others.[http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/a-e/cl80-001 ]
References
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1873 births
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