Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth

Landowner, politician and philanthropist.

National Gallery Trustee (1900–1923).

Great-great-grandson of Robert Clive (1725–1774), 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (q.v.), whose actions, as an employee of the British East India Company, ‘resulted in the plundering of Indian treasures and also in famines caused by policies disastrous to local Indian farm production’. (‘Robert Clive’, Wikipedia [online], <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clive#Criticism> accessed 4 August 2021.)

No known connections with abolition.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website

J. Piggott, 'Clive, Robert George Windsor-, first earl of Plymouth', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/62036
Checked and found — Item on publisher's website

J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website

UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
Checked and not found — Item on publisher's website