Percy Clive

Percy Archer Clive, DL (13 March 1873 – 5 April 1918[1]) was a British army officer and Liberal Unionist Party politician.

[4] He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire in December 1894,[5] and was attached to the Niger Field Force from 1897 to 1899 based in Lagos, rising to the rank of captain.

[3] A further act of commemoration came with the unveiling in 1932 of a manuscript-style illuminated book of remembrance for the House of Commons, which includes a short biographical account of the life and death of Clive.

[16][17] His elder son Major Meysey George Dallas Clive (1907–1943) was killed with the Grenadier Guards in World War II in North Africa on 1 May 1943.

[18] His younger son Lewis Clive (1910–1938) won a gold medal for rowing at the 1932 Olympics and was a member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, killed in action in August 1938.

Armorial shield of the Clive family; the design used in the heraldic shield memorial to Clive in the House of Commons [ 3 ]