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Edward Clive, 1st earl of Powis

1754–1839

Statesman. MP for Ludlow 1774–94. Created Baron Clive of Walcot, 1794. Governor of Madras, 1798–1803. Married Henrietta Antonia Herbert, daughter of the earl of Powis and last of the Herbert family, in 1784. Granted the revived title of earl of Powis in 1804.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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