Margaret Clive

She lived at home until she was about thirteen when her mother died, and she was sent to stay with relatives in Wiltshire, where she started school when she was about fourteen.

[1] She went out to India at the suggestion of her brother Edmund with the intention of chasing Robert Clive, who was a colleague.

When she set out he was a man who reportedly had fallen in love with her portrait; when she arrived Robert Clive was a hero.

Her voyage was not in vain as she married him at St. Mary's Church in (then) Madras on 18 February 1753.

The house was rented complete with a deer park, three manors and with a library of thousands of pounds' worth of books.

A miniature of her by John Smart in 1770