Two Clives of Garlick please Mr. Leach

Sojourner sojourner at vt.edu
Mon Jul 21 11:11:46 CDT 1997


Is this our man?

>Edward Herbert, Viscount Clive of Powis Castle (1785-1848) 
>
>         Born as Edward Clive, he changed his name in order to inherit the
Powis estates as part of
>         the terms of his uncle's will. His father Lord Clive was made
earl of Powis and the estates
>         were managed by him until the son came of age in 1806. At the
time of the trial of the
>         "Newtown Three", Edward Herbert was the M.P. for Ludlow - a seat
he was to hold until
>         inheriting the earldom in 1839 - while his father was a Tory peer
and opponent of the 1832
>         Reform Bill in the House of Lords. In other words, although not
yet the earl, he was the
>landlord of the Powis estates. 
>
>Lord Clive spent his own money on public works like improvements to the
Welshpool parish church and
>the town halls of Welshpool and Montgomery. He was Lord-lieutenant for
Montgomeryshire and
>Chairman of the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company. He led the
opposition to the movement
>to amalgamate the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph in 1846, and the following
year narrowly missed being
>elected Chancellor of Cambridge University when he was defeated by Prince
Albert. He died in 1848
>after a tragic shooting accident at Powis Castle, when he was shot by one
of his own sons and died a few
>days later. (This son was apparently afterwards known to other members of
the family by the nickname
>of "Bag Dad".) 

I found it at

http://www.powys.gov.uk/pcc/archives/Newtown/clive.htm




	"And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud 
	 voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? 
	 which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, 
	 why hast thou forsaken me?

	 And some of them that stood by, when they heard it,
	  said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

	 And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, and put 
	 it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; 
	 let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.
	
	And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost."

		--Mark 15:34-37






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