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Lord Clive (1725-74) and Nawab of Bengal, 1773 (oil on canvas)

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BL1547011
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Lord Clive (1725-74) and Nawab of Bengal, 1773 (oil on canvas)
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Penny, Edward (1714-91) / English
Location
British Library, London, UK
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1772 AD - 1773 AD (C18th AD)
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Lord Clive receiving from the Nawab of Bengal the grant of the sum of money which was applied to establish the fund for disabled Officers and Soldiers known as Lord Clive's Fund. Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS (25 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer and soldier of fortune who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures in the creation of British India. He also sat in a rotten borough as a Tory Member of Parliament in Great Britain.

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