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Clive, Robert, (1725-1774), 1st Baron Clive, Governor of Bengal

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Surname: Clive
Forenames: Robert
Gender: Male
Date: 1725-1774
Title: 1st Baron Clive
Biography: ODNB link for Clive, Robert (1725-1774) 1st Baron Clive, Governor of Bengal
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P149759 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P5912 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Clive
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1733-74: corresp and papers
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur G 37
NRA 29349
2
1753-74: corresp and papers
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
Clive
NRA 23682 Clive
3
1751-72: corresp, journals, papers
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Home misc series
4
1759-74: corresp and papers
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
1990 deposit
NRA 20151 Herbert
5
1755-74: misc papers
Shropshire Archives
552
NRA 17099 Herbert

See microfilm in India Office Collections (reel 625)
6
c1750: copies of letters from various Indian rulers
Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
BB2
NRA 1010 Clive
7
1759-66: corresp, mostly letters to Harry Verelst
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur E 231
NRA 27485
8
1763-1774: letters to agent (John Ashby)
The National Archives
C109
NRA 34890

See HMC
9
1759-65: corresp with John Carnac
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 128
10
letters (10) from Philip Francis
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur C 8, D 18, E 12-22, F 5-6
11
1763-69: (copies) letters to George Grenville
British Library, Manuscript Collections
RP 460
12
1758-73: letters to Warren Hastings
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 29131
13
1757-67: corresp with the Duke of Newcastle, etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 32685-987 passim
14
1762-66: letters to Robert Orme
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 44061
15
1757-58: letters (10) to Sir George Pocock
University of Minnesota: Ames Library of South Asia
See India Office Library Annual Report 1965-66
16
1765-74: corresp with Henry Strachey
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 128
17
1760-69: corresp with Harry Verelst
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur F 218
NRA 29780
18
1759-71: corresp with John Walsh and J Fowke
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur D 546
NRA 24532