Percy Clive

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Lt-Col Percy Archer Clive (1873-1918) was the Liberal Unionist Party and from a merger of the Unionist parties in 1912 the Conservative MP for Ross who died in World War I. He represented his Herefordshire constituency 1900 - 1906 and returned again in a 1908 by-election.

Percy Clive was the eldest son of Charles Meysey Bolton Clive of Whitfield Estate, Herefordshire, and Lady Katherine Feilding. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and entered the Grenadier Guards in 1891, retiring in 1901. He was elected MP while fighting in the Second Boer War.

He returned to the army in World War I and was wounded twice. As Lieutenant-Colonel of the Grenadier Guards he was killed in action when attached to the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 April 1918 at Bucquoy.

Clive was awarded the DSO, the Legion of Honour, and the Croix de Guerre, and was twice mentioned in despatches.

His older son Major Meysey George Dallas Clive (1907-1943) was with the Grenadier Guards in WW2 and was killed 1 May 1943. Another son Lewis Clive (1910–1938) won a rowing gold medal at the 1932 Olympics and was a member of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, killed in action.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Michael Biddulph	Member of Parliament for Ross 1900–1906	Succeeded by Alan Coulstoun Gardner
Preceded by Alan Coulstoun Gardner	Member of Parliament for Ross 1908–1918	Succeeded by Charles Thornton Pulley