Clive, Margaret (1735–1817)
Clive, Margaret (1735–1817)
English baroness. Name variations: Lady Clive; Baroness Clive. Born Margaret Maskelyne in 1735; died Feb 21, 1817; dau. of Edmund Maskelyne; sister of Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811, who was appointed Astronomer Royal); m. Robert Clive (1725–1774, 1st baron Clive, clerk of the British East India Co. who turned to soldiering and laid the foundations of an empire), Mar 15, 1752, at Madras, India; children: Edward, 1st earl of Powis (1754–1839), Charlotte, Robert (1769–1833), Rebecca (d. 1795), Elizabeth, Jennifer and Margaretta or Margaret Clive (d. 1814, m. Theodore Walpole Lambert).
At 16, made the long passage round the Cape of Good Hope to India to marry a man she had never seen, a friend of her brother; her correspondence from India (1762–1817) has been published in Women Writing Home, 1700–1920 (Vol. 2); portrayed by Loretta Young in the film Clive of India (1935).