Soldier and administrator. Born Shropshire. With the East India Company he effectively founded the British Empire. Spent much of his adult life in India, making his fortune there and becoming Governor of Bengal. Back at home in Berkeley Square he died by suicide with an overdose of laudanum after being accused of financial irregularities.
He has been accused of actions leading to famines and other atrocities towards native populations.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Robert, Lord Clive, Clive of India
Clive lived here from 1761 until his death, from an overdose of laudanum.
Died in a fire at St Stephens Hospital, Chelsea. Jeremiah Donovan was born on 10 March 1905 in Battersea, London, one of the six children of Jeremiah Donovan (b.1868) and Mary Donovan née Cunningh...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
We found more than one Roberto Arancibia who might be the one referred to on the plinth and none of them seem to be Generals, so we have failed to identify him.
British army regiment. Formed from volunteer units in the Surrey suburbs and was part of the London Regiment in the Territorial Force. When the London Regiment was abolished, the unit reverted to t...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
Logician and philosopher. Born Hull where his father was vicar of a local parish. Grandson of Rev John Venn. Inventor of the Venn diagram. In 1888 he seems to have tired of logic and turned to ...
Writer and collector. Youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole. His gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto"' was published in 1764. But his passion was his gothic creation, his house at Strawberry Hill,...
Clerk for the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. May be "Jnd.", either way we can't think what it might stand for.
Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.
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