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Clive, Robert, Lord Clive and Baron Plassey
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or The founder of the dominion of Britain in India, born in Shropshire; at 19 went out a clerk in the East India Company's service, but quitted his employment in that capacity for the army; distinguishing himself against the rajah of Tanjore, was appointed commissary; advised an attack on Arcot, in the Carnatic, in 1751; took it from and held it against the French, after which, and other brilliant successes, he returned to England, and was made lieutenant-colonel in the king's service; went out again, and marched against the nabob Surajah Dowlah, and overthrew him at the battle of Plassey, 1757; established the British power in Calcutta, and was raised to the peerage; finally returned to England possessed of great wealth, which exposed him to the accusation of having abused his power; the accusation failed; in his grief he took to opium, and committed suicide (1725-1774).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Clive, Robert, Lord Clive and Baron Plassey'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/clive-robert-lord-clive-and-baron-plassey.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
