Tuesday, 11 June 2013
175 George Clive
Constituency : Hereford 1857-69, 1874-80
George was a member of the Clive family headed by the Earl of Powis and distantly related to Clive of India. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford and became a barrister.
He was first elected for Hereford in 1857. In a strange series of events he was unseated on petition in 1869 and the byelection was won by his son Edward. The latter resigned the seat in 1871 and it was taken by the Conservatives. George then re-took it in 1874.
George was Under-secretary of state at the Home Office between 1859 and 1862.
He died in 1880 aged 74.
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