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Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth

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The Earl of Plymouth
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
6 March 1923 – 1 October 1943
Preceded byThe 1st Earl of Plymouth
Succeeded byThe 3rd Earl of Plymouth
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
1936–1939
Preceded byThe Earl Stanhope
Succeeded byRab Butler
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
In office
1932–1936
Preceded byRobert Hamilton
Succeeded byThe Earl De La Warr
Member of Parliament for Ludlow
In office
4 January 1922 – 6 March 1923
Preceded bySir Beville Stanier
Succeeded byGeorge Windsor-Clive
Personal details
Born2 February 1889
Died1 October 1943(1943-10-01) (aged 54)
Spouse
Lady Irene Corona Charteris
(m. 1921)
Children6, including the 3rd Earl of Plymouth
Parent(s)Lady Alberta Victoria Paget
The 1st Earl of Plymouth
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Other titles
  • 2nd Viscount Windsor
  • 15th Baron Windsor

Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth, GCStJ, PC (4 February 1889 – 1 October 1943), was an English nobleman and Conservative Party politician.

Early life

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Ivor Windsor-Clive was born on 4 February 1889. He was the second, and only surviving, son of the Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline (née Paget) Windsor-Clive and Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857–1923). He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Until succeeding his father in 1923, he used his father's subsidiary title Viscount Windsor.[1]

His paternal grandfather was Robert Windsor-Clive, himself the son of Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor. Ivor's mother was the daughter of Sir Augustus Paget, the British Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, and descended from the Earls of Uxbridge.[1]

Career

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He was member for West St Pancras on London County Council from 1913 to 1919, and was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ludlow, Shropshire at a by-election in January 1922, holding the seat until he succeeded his father in March 1923. He held office as Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1925 to 1929, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs from January–June 1929,[2] Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1931 to 1932, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1932 to 1936, and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1936 to 1939.

He is probably best known for his work as co-chairman of the International Committee for Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan in 1923, and a Privy Counsellor in the 1929 Dissolution Honours. He was made an Honorary freedom of Cardiff in 1936, served as the charter mayor of the Borough of Barry in 1939, President of the National Museum of Wales and as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales 1941. He was appointed Sub-Prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1943.

On 12 March 1924 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Glamorgan Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery; his father had held the same position with its Victorian predecessor unit.[3]

Lord Plymouth was Chairman of the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments in the Principality.

Personal life

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On 14 July 1921, he was married to Lady Irene Corona Charteris (1902–1989), the third daughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, and Mary Constance Wyndham, herself one of the three famous Wyndham sisters, all daughters of Percy Wyndham.[4] Together, Ivor and Irene were the parents of:[1]

The 2nd Earl of Plymouth died in 1943 aged 54 and was buried in the Windsor-Clive family plot at Tardebigge, Worcestershire. His wife Irene, who died in 1989, is buried next to him. Upon his death, his eldest son inherited an estate valued in excess of £30 million which included the Oakly Park estate near Ludlow in Shropshire, which was in excess of 7,500 acres.[6]

Descendants

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Through his son Other, he was the grandfather of Ivor Edward Other Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of Plymouth (born 1951); Lady Emma Windsor-Clive; Hon. Simon Windsor-Clive and Hon. David Windsor-Clive.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Plymouth, Earl of (UK, 1905)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. ^ Pedersen, Susan (2015). The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford University Press. p. 413. ISBN 9780199730032. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ^ Army List.
  4. ^ Renton, Claudia (2018). Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 466. ISBN 9781101874301. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Obituary: Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth". Cooke & Artkwright. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  6. ^ O'Sullivan, Tom (12 March 2000). "The Young Elite 21-30". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Ludlow
January 1922March 1923
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1932–1936
Succeeded by
Preceded by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
1936–1939
With: Viscount Cranborne 1936–1938
Rab Butler 1938–1939
Succeeded by
Preceded by Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
1925–1929
Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan
1923–1943
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Plymouth
3rd creation
1923–1943
Member of the House of Lords
(1923–1943)
Succeeded by
Viscount Windsor
2nd creation
1923–1943
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Windsor
1923–1943
Succeeded by