Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth

Robert George Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (27 August 1857 – 6 March 1923), known as the 14th Baron Windsor between 1869 and 1905, was a British nobleman and Conservative politician.

[3] As Lord Windsor he commissioned Bodley and Garner to build a new country house at his estate in Hewell Grange near Tardebigge, Worcestershire, which was completed in 1884–1891.

There are several ruins of earlier houses on the estate, and a large number of listed buildings, structures and statues.

[5] The sixteenth-century house is now part of the National Museum of Wales, to which it was donated following the death of the 2nd Earl, and is furnished and decorated as it would have been during their residence.

[6] Under Arthur Balfour he was First Commissioner of Works between 11 August 1902 and the Liberal election in 1905,[7] during which period he was responsible for the transformation of The Mall into a processional carriageway and passed the plans for the Queen Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace.

In 1913 Lord Plymouth hosted the Duke and Duchess of Argyll (sister of the late King Edward VII) at his Worcestershire seat, Hewell Grange.

[15] In 1883, Lord Plymouth married Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline, who was the daughter of Sir Augustus Paget, and born in 1863.

[17] Lord Plymouth died suddenly in March 1923, aged 65, at his home in Great Cumberland Place, London, and was buried at Tardebigge, Worcestershire.

"Good Works". Caricature by "Spy" ( Leslie Ward ) published in Vanity Fair in 1906.
Memorial to the 1st Earl of Plymouth at St Bartholomew's church, Tardebigge .
Windsor-Clive family plot in the cemetery of St Bartholomew's church, Tardebigge , Worcestershire. Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, GBE, CB, PC (1857–1923), and his family are buried here.