Edward Clive (British Army officer)

General Edward Henry Clive DL, JP (23 September 1837 – 1 March 1916), was a British soldier and Liberal politician.

Military career
Clive was the son of George Clive and Ann Sybella Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Farquhar, 2nd Baronet. He was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1854 and then transferred to the Grenadier Guards. He was appointed Commandant at the Staff College, Sandhurst in 1885 and Governor and Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1888 remaining in that post until 1893.

Political career
Clive succeeded his father (who had been unseated on petition) as Member of Parliament for Hereford in 1869, but only held the seat until 1871, when he resigned through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He never returned to the House of Commons. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire and County Mayo and Justice of the Peace for Herefordshire and County Mayo.

Family
Clive married Isabel, daughter of Daniel Hale Webb, in 1867. They had five sons, including Sir Sidney Clive, and four daughters. Clive died in March 1916, aged 78. His wife survived him by six years and died in April 1922.