Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, GCVO KCB CMG DSO DL JP (16 July 1874 – 7 October 1959) was a British Army officer who subsequently became Military Secretary.
[4] He fought in the Second Boer War between 1900 and 1902; he was part of a detachment sent to South Africa on the SS "Umbria "in late March 1900 to reinforce the 3rd battalion.
[1] After the War, in 1919, Clive was appointed Military Governor of Cologne and from 1919 to 1920, he was Commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade at Aldershot (as a temporary Brigadier).
[2] Clive retired from the army in 1934, as a Lieutenant General, and served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps between 1934 and 1946 and as High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1939.
[11] He died on 7 October 1959 in a disastrous fire at the family home, Perrystone Court, near Ross-on-Wye.