page_title: Robert Clive
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Clive / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: The statue of Clive of India in Shrewsbury Square (The Square) near the High Street. It is in front of the Old Market Hall. Statue of Robert Clive, First Baron of India (1725-1774) The statue is Grade II listed. Statue of Lord Clive, Shrewsbury
context_page_description: Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive KB, FRS, also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He is credited along with Warren Hastings for laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. He began as a writer for the East India Company who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by securing a decisive victory in Bengal. In return for supporting the Nawab of Bengal Mir Jafar on the throne, Clive was granted a jaghire of £30,000 per year which was the rent the EIC would otherwise pay to the Nawab for their tax farming concession, when he left India he had a fortune of £180,000 which he remitted through the Dutch East India Company. Blocking impending French mastery of India, and eventual British expulsion from the continent, Clive improvised a military expedition that ultimately enabled the EIC to adopt the French strategy of indirect rule via puppet government. Hired by the EIC to return a second time to India, Clive conspired to secure the Company's trade interests by overthrowing the ruler of Bengal, the richest state in India.
context_section_description: Robert Clive's desk from his time at Market Drayton Grammar School is on display at Market Drayton museum complete with his carved initials. The town also has a Clive Road.
  Robert Clive's pet Aldabra giant tortoise died on 23 March 2006 in the Kolkata zoo. The tortoise, whose name was "Adwaita" (meaning the "One and Only" in Bengali), appeared to be 150–250 years old. Adwaita had been in the zoo since the 1870s and the zoo's documentation showed that he came from Clive's estate in India.
  A statue of Clive stands in the main square in the market town of Shrewsbury, as well as a later one in King Charles Street near St James's Park, London.
  Clive is a Senior Girls house at the Duke of York's Royal Military School, where, as at Welbeck college, all houses are named after prominent military figures.
  Clive Road, in West Dulwich, London, commemorates Baron Clive despite being so named close to a century after his death. Following the completion of the relocation of The Crystal Palace from Hyde Park to what is now Upper Norwood in 1854, the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway was opened on 10 June 1854 to cope with crowds visiting the Crystal Palace. This led to a huge increase in employment in the area and a subsequent increase in the building of residential properties. Many of the new roads were named after eminent figures in British imperial history, such as Robert Clive.
  There is a settlement named after Clive in the Hawke's Bay province of New Zealand.
  A bestselling children's novel, G. A. Henty's With Clive in India: Or, the Beginnings of an Empire (published 1884) celebrated Clive's life and career from a pro-British point of view.
  The film Clive of India was released in 1935, and starred Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, and Colin Clive, his descendant.
  'Clive' is a house at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood where he was a student for seven years before his expulsion. Members can be distinguished by their red striped ties.
  Robert Clive established the first slaughterhouse of India in Calcutta in 1760.
  'Clive of India' is a brand of curry powder manufactured in Australia by McKenzie's Foods.
  Clive is now established as a male first name in English-speaking countries.
  Lord Clive was a ship that was sunk in front of the city of Colonia del Sacramento by Spanish fire during an Anglo-Portuguese attack in the Rio de la Plata in 1763. Its wreck was located in 2004 by diver Ruben Collado.
  In Bengal literature, stage drama and movies on the historical battle of Plassey and the downfall of the last free nawab of Bengal, Robert Clive has been depicted in corrupt and traitorous role as the beginning of the loss of Indian independence at the hand of the East India Company.
caption: A statue of Clive stands tall in Shrewsbury Square
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