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