Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Among the prisoners captured at Madras was Robert Clive himself.

In 1751, Robert Clive led a British armed force and captured Arcot to reinstate the incumbent Nawab.

However, armed forces under Robert Clive later recaptured Calcutta and then pressed on to capture the French settlement of Chandannagar in 1757.

This led to the Battle of Plassey on June 23, 1757, in which the Bengal Army of the East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French-supported Nawab's forces.

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive.

French defeat by the British under the command of Robert Clive during the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) marked the end of the French stake in India.

Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

File: reynolds. clive. 750pix. jpg | Robert Clive and his family with an Indian maid, 1765

* 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3, 000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50, 000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.

Tarantino then went on to be credited as " Special Guest Director " in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

The British, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French and their Indian allies in the Battle of Plassey, leaving the Company in control of Bengal and a major military and political power in India.

* June 23 – Battle of Plassey: 3, 000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50, 000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

* November 22 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman ( b. 1725 )

* July 17 – In a convoy of ships from Great Britain, returning to India for the East India Company, the lead ship Dodington wrecks at Port Elizabeth, losing a chest of gold coins from Robert Clive, worth £ 33, 000.

* September 29 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman ( d. 1774 )

File: reynolds. clive. 750pix. jpg | Joshua Reynolds, Robert Clive and his family with an Indian maid, 1765

Maskelyne's sister, Margaret, married Robert Clive.

Major-General Stringer Lawrence, first commander-in-chief of British troops in India, under whose command Robert Clive served, was born in Hereford.

In this same period he wrote Friday Afternoons, a collection of 12 songs mostly for unison singing, for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn where Britten's brother, Robert, was headmaster.

Some of the more notable contributors were Sir Geoffrey Elton, John Clive, Arnaldo Momigliano, Frances Yates, Jeremy Catto, Robert S. Lopez, Michael Howard, David S. Katz, Dimitri Obolensky, J. H.

Adwaita was said to be the pet of Robert Clive.

* 1863 – Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility ( b. 1782 )

* Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1908 – 1923

* Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe 1936 – 1944

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

Major General Robert Ford, then Commander of Land Forces in Northern Ireland, ordered that 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ( 1 PARA ) should travel to Derry to be used to arrest possible rioters during the march.

In England, the clerks of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, made a practice of using the Latin word consul rather than the more common comes when translating his title of ' Earl '.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's co-operation as an intelligence agent for the Tories.

In despair, he wrote to William Paterson the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator of the Darien scheme, who was in the confidence of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, leading minister and spymaster in the English Government.

* 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )

* 1613 – Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard.

They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

1938-39, unfinished, prepared for performance by Dr. Robert Wagner ; 1st perf.

# Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, b. 1090.

* 1533 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester ( d. 1588 )

* 1118 – Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester ( b. 1049 )

* 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury ( d. 1612 )

Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style.

* 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant ( b. 1893 )

* 1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman ( d. 1626 )

These were Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Leighton.