Erection date: 1916
{On the front of the plinth:}
Clive
1725 1774
{On the 3 other faces there are 3 bronze reliefs showing triumphs from Clive's life. Clockwise:}
Clive receives the Grant of Bengal, Behar and Orissa at Alllahabad, August 1765
Clive in the Mango Tope on the eve of Plassey, June 22 1757
Clive at the Siege of Arcot, September to November 1751
John Tweed was the sculptor of the statue.
SW1, Clive Steps
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Clive of India - statue
Soldier and administrator. Born Shropshire. With the East India Company he ef...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Clive of India - statue
Sculptor. Born Glasgow. Good friend and associate of Rodin. Also by Tweed is ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Clive of India - statue
Ornamental Passions tells us "A pair of schoolchildren flanked each entrance, as was customary, but one pair was later transferred to St ...
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
Ornamental Passions us that "The statue is a copy of one made in 1895 by the Venezualan sculptor Rafael de la Cova. It was put in positio...
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
The statue is lit at night and the shadow of the figure on the bronze disk photographs well.
For an idea of what this area used to be like see this 1894ish map. It was all redeveloped following the 1928 flood. This block was desig...
Chairman  of the Bridges Committee of the London County Council in 1902.
Drowned in the 1898 HMS Albion disaster, aged 17. Buried in grave 2 at the memorial in East London Cemetery.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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