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Margaret Clive, Baroness Clive (née Maskelyne; 26 October 1735 – 28 December 1817) was a British society figure. She went out to India to meet an admirer and married a military hero. She was in Bengal as their family became incredibly wealthy.
13 de ago. de 2020 · Peggy, as Margaret Maskelyne was known as, had “won all hearts in Madras”, writes Sir George Forrest in The Life of Lord Clive. Margaret came from old East India Company stock. Her father, however, was a civil servant. Edmund, meanwhile, “led a life that was more entertaining than memorable”.
6 de oct. de 2022 · In 1753, Clive hung up his sabre and returned to Company commerce in Madras. In February, he married Margaret Maskelyne and then returned to England where his first son was born, Edward, on 7 March 1754. The couple would have four more children who survived the perils of infancy.
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC) rule in Bengal.
6 de oct. de 2022 · Robert Clive (1725-1774), también conocido como "Clive de la India" y barón Clive de Plassey, fue el artífice de la expansión de la Compañía de las Indias Orientales en la India. Más conocido por su victoria en Plassey (Bengala) en 1757, la reputación de Clive se resintió en vida por las acusaciones de corrupción y ...
Why did Clive choose to live 4 miles outside Calcutta in what was a pretty featureless area of countryside (so uninhabited that the Bengal Artillery used it as a shooting range; and would eventually choose it as their main depot in India)? It was due to the unhealthiness of Calcutta.
Clive helped his own cause in India by linking his fortunes with the Maskelynes, an English family of some note. He first befriended Edmund Maskelyne, and then married Edmund's charming young sister Margaret on the eve of his return in I 753. The Maskelynes were an intellectual family whose
