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Lieutenant Colonel George WINSOR-CLIVE CMG
Coldstream Guards and General Staff Date of birth: 6th April 1878 Date of death: 25th June 1968 Died aged 90 Unknown
George Windsor-Clive was born at 12 Stratford Place, Marylebone in London on the 6th of April 1878 the only child of Lieutenant Colonel the Hon George Herbert Windsor Windsor-Clive, Member of Parliament for Ludlow, and Gertrude Albertina (nee Trefusis) Windsor-Clive of 12 Stratford Place, Oxford Street in London. He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1891 and at Eton College where he was in the Reverend Stuart Alexander Donaldson’ house from September 1891 to December 1895. He passed the examination for the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1895 and entered the following year. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards on the 8th of September 1897 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of February 1899. He served in the South African War under General Methuen taking part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. He served in the Orange Free State from February to May 1900 including actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet River (5th and 6th of May) and at the Zand River. He was in the Transvaal in May and June 1900 including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11th and 12th of June). He was in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria from July to October 1900 including in the action at Belfast (26th and 27th of August) being in the Transvaal west of Pretoria until the 29th of November 1900. He was mentioned in despatches on the 10th of September 1901 and was awarded the Queen’s Medal with seven clasps. He was promoted to Captain on the 18th of November 1905. He was married to Sidney Guendolen, (nee Lacaita) on the 19th of November 1912; they had four children, Robert Charles, born on the 29th of April 1919, Mary Phyllis, born on the 28th of March 1921, Francis Archer, born on the 25th of December 1922 and Evered Ivor, born on the 29th of July 1925. He was seconded to the Staff as a General Staff Officer Grade 2 on the 1st of March 1914 and served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General, Headquarters, London Division from the 1st of March 1914 to the 5th of November 1914. He was promoted to Major on the 8th of April 1914. Following the outbreak of war, he embarked for France on the 7th of November 1914 where he served as a Staff Officer with 4th Army Corps until the 31st of December 1914. From the 1st of January 1915 he was seconded to the staff of 2nd Army until the 16th of July 1915. He served as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General with 28th Division from the 17th of July 1915 to the 28th of August 1916 and as Assistant Adjutant General on the lines of communication from the 29th of August 1916 to the 22nd of February 1917. He was mentioned in despatches in the King’s New Year’s Honours List of the 1st of January 1916. From the 23rd of February 1917 to the 19th of June 1918 he served at the General Headquarters in Salonika being mentioned in General G.F. Milne’s despatches of the 8th of October 1916, on the 29th of March 1917 and on one other occasion. He was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on the 3rd of June 1917. He served at the War office from the 1st of August 1918 to the 14th of March 1919 as Assistant Adjutant General. He was appointed as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant general on the 6th of February 1920. He was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in King's Birthday Honours list of June 1919. In 1920 he was employed with the Inter Allied Military Commission for the control of Austria from 1920 to 1922 and served in Hungary during 1921 and 1922. He left the army on the 4th of April 1923 and succeeded his father, the 2nd Earl of Plymouth, as Conservative Member of Parliament for the seat of Ludlow which he held from the 19th of April 1923 until the 15th of June 1945. He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire from 1947 to 1967 and was a Director of the United Limmer and Vorwihle Rock Asphalte Company Limited. He lived at 35 Cadogan Square SWI and belonged to the Carlton, Guards and the Wellington Clubs

Went on to Eton College