Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Plymouth
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Status:Lord Temporal
Term Start:6 March 1923
Predecessor:The 1st Earl of Plymouth
Term End:1 October 1943
Successor:The 3rd Earl of Plymouth
Office1:Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Term Start1:1936
Term End1:1939
Predecessor1:The Earl Stanhope
Successor1:Rab Butler
Office2:Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Term Start2:1932
Term End2:1936
Predecessor2:Robert Hamilton
Successor2:The Earl De La Warr
Office3:Member of Parliament for Ludlow
Term Start3:4 January 1922
Term End3:6 March 1923
Predecessor3:Sir Beville Stanier
Successor3:George Windsor-Clive
Birth Date:2 February 1889
Parents:Lady Alberta Victoria Paget
The 1st Earl of Plymouth
Children:6, including the 3rd Earl of Plymouth
Education:Eton College
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Cambridge
Blank1:Other titles

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

Early life

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

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

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

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Plymouth, Earl of (UK, 1905) . www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk . Cracroft's Peerage . 25 July 2018.
  2. Book: Pedersen . Susan . Susan Pedersen (historian) . The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire . 2015 . . 9780199730032 . 413 . 25 July 2018 .
  3. Army List.
  4. Book: Renton . Claudia . Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power . 2018 . . 9781101874301 . 466 . 25 July 2018 .
  5. News: Obituary: Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth . 25 July 2018 . Cooke & Artkwright . 29 March 2018 .
  6. News: O'Sullivan . Tom . The Young Elite 21-30 . 25 July 2018 . . 12 March 2000 .