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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Clive | | | First names | Margaret | | | Death date | 28 Dec 1817 | | | Place of death | Near Ludlow  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | 1817 Suppl. Part II | | | Page number | 629 | | | Detail | At Oakley-park, near Ludlow, in her 84th year, Margaret Lady Clive, relict of Robert first Lord Clive, the founder of our empire in Bengal. Lady Clive was in various parts of India when her husband commanded there. She joined him in Calcutta after the re-taking of that town, and the decisive battle of Plassey. The death of Lord Clive took place in 1774. After that tragical event Lady Clive retired to the country, and confined herself to the society of her near connexions; above forty years of her life was thus passed in widowhood and seclusion. Her ladyship was daughter of Edward Maskelyne, esq; married about the year 1752; and was mother to the present Earl of Powis, and grandmother to the Duchess of Northumberland and Lady Harriet Wynn. |
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