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Robert Clive

1725 - 1774

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Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC) rule in Bengal. He began as a writer (the term used then in India for an office clerk) for the EIC in 1744 and established Company rule in Bengal by winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Clive has received more than 2,902,614 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Robert Clive is the 4,013th most popular politician (up from 5,528th in 2019), the 888th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,219th in 2019) and the 157th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Clive ranks 4,013 out of 15,577. Before him are Yaroslav II of Vladimir, Felix Kersten, Henri, Count of Paris, Wei Zifu, Princess Clémentine of Belgium, and Sālote Tupou III. After him are Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Stephen Bocskai, Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut, John III of Navarre, Friedrich Adler, and Merenre Nemtyemsaf I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Robert Clive ranks 7. Before him are Giacomo Casanova, Abdul Hamid I, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, Pasquale Paoli, Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and Jean-Baptiste Greuze. After him are Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Ludovico Manin, Suzuki Harunobu, Henry Benedict Stuart, John Newton, and Pyotr Rumyantsev. Among people deceased in 1774, Robert Clive ranks 6. Before him are Louis XV of France, Pope Clement XIV, François Quesnay, Charles Marie de La Condamine, and Niccolò Jommelli. After him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Jacques-François Blondel, Oliver Goldsmith, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, and Florian Leopold Gassmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Clive ranks 888 out of 7,765. Before him are Frederic Leighton (1830), Mike Newell (1942), Archer Martin (1910), James Paul Moody (1887), James Lovelock (1919), and Elizabeth Gaskell (1810). After him are Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594), Michael Atiyah (1929), Andy Serkis (1964), Martin Evans (1941), Mairead Maguire (1944), and Peter D. Mitchell (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Robert Clive ranks 157. Before him are William Penn (1645), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915), Duncan I of Scotland (1001), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), and Gladwyn Jebb (1900). After him are Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594), Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), H. H. Asquith (1852), David I of Scotland (1084), John Hawkwood (1320), and Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941).

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