Other Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth explained

Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Earl of Plymouth
Office:Member of the House of Lords
Status:Lord Temporal
Term Label:as a hereditary peer
Term Start:1 October 1943
Predecessor:The 2nd Earl of Plymouth
Term End:11 November 1999
Successor:Seat abolished
Birth Name:Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive
Birth Date:9 October 1923
Blank1:Other titles

Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth, (9 October 1923 – 7 March 2018), was a British landowner, soldier, businessman and a member of the House of Lords from 1943 until 1999.

Early life and education

Windsor-Clive was born in 1923, the son of Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth, and his wife Lady Irene Corona Charteris, youngest daughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss. His unusual first name goes back in the Windsor family to Other, or Othoere, the father of Walter FitzOther, who was castellan of Windsor in the time of William the Conqueror.[1]

Windsor-Clive was educated at Eton College. On 1 October 1943, upon his father's death he succeeded as Earl of Plymouth, Viscount Windsor of St Fagans, and Baron Windsor, but was too young to immediately take his seat in the House of Lords.

Military service

Windsor-Clive left school in 1941 and was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, serving throughout the Second World War. He took part in the Normandy landings on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and rose to the rank of temporary Captain.

Later life

After the war, Lord Plymouth continued his interrupted education at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA.[2] [3]

In 1953, Plymouth was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and also as a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.

From 1960 to 1967 he was a Trustee of the National Gallery and in 1961 was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Shropshire. From 1967 to 1972, he was President of the National Museum of Wales and from 1972 to 1982 sat on the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries. He was Chairman of the Reviewing Committee for Works of Art between 1982 and 1985.[2]

In 1999, Plymouth was one of the hereditary peers who ceased to be members of the House of Lords as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999. In more than fifty years as a member, he is not recorded in Hansard as having spoken.[4]

Marriage and children

On 11 October 1950 Plymouth married Caroline Helen Rice. They had four children:[2] [3] [5]

Death

Lord Plymouth died on 7 March 2018 at the age of 94. He was succeeded in the earldom and other peerages by his eldest son, Ivor.[2]

Notes and References

  1. [Arthur Collins (antiquarian)|Arthur Collins]
  2. https://www.coark.com/news/obituary-other-robert-ivor-windsor-clive-3rd-earl-of-plymouth/ "Obituary: Other Robert Ivor Windsor-Clive, 3rd Earl of Plymouth"
  3. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/plymouth1905.htm "Plymouth, Earl of (UK, 1905)"
  4. https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-other-windsor-clive Mr Other Windsor-Clive
  5. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.