Biographer Robert Harvey suggests that this move was made because Clive's father was busy in London trying to provide for the family.

In 1744 Clive's father acquired for him a position as a " factor " or " writer " in the service of the East India Company, and Clive set sail for India.

Because of the darkness, the besiegers had no idea how large Clive's force was, and it fled in panic.

The affair was a serious blow: 15 of Clive's men were killed, and another 15 wounded.

The approach of this force prompted Raza Sahib to demand Clive's surrender ; Clive's response was an immediate rejection, and he further insulted Raza Sahib by suggesting that he should reconsider sending his rabble of troops against a British-held position.

When war again broke out in 1756, during Clive's absence in Bengal, the French obtained successes in the northern districts, and it was Mohammed Ali Khan Walajah's efforts which drove them from their settlements.

Even allowing for overestimation this was considerably more than Clive's force of approximately 540 British infantry, 600 Royal Navy sailors, 800 sepoys, fourteen field guns and no cavalry.

The immediate consequence of Clive's victory at Plassey was an increase in the revenue demand on Bengal by at least 20 %, much of which was appropriated by Zamindars and corrupt Company Officials, which led to considerable hardship for the rural population, particularly during the famine of 1770.

" The date was 12 August 1765, the place Benares, the throne an English dining-table covered with embroidered cloth and surmounted by a chair in Clive's tent.

Though Clive's suicide has been linked to his history of depression and to opium addiction, the likely immediate impetus was excruciating pain resulting from illness ( he was known to suffer from gallstones ) which he had been attempting to abate with opium.

Vanessa's daughter by Duncan, Angelica Garnett ( née Bell ), was raised as Clive's daughter until she married.

Rupert Sterling was for many years Alex and Clive's boss and is now a senior director at Megabank.

Ruth was Clive's American lover, not seen much lately.

Clive's first screen role, in Journey's End, was incidentally directed by James Whale.

David Lewis, the longtime companion of Clive's frequent director James Whale, flatly states that Clive was not gay.

Clive's alcoholism was very much apparent to his co-stars, as he was often seen napping on set and sometimes was so intoxicated that he had to be held upright for over-the-shoulder shots.

* Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (" Clive of India ") was believed to be living as a tenant at Condover Hall when two of his daughters, Margaret (' Margaretta ' in the registers ) and Elizabeth were baptised at Condover Church respectively in 1763 and 1764 ; after the entry of Elizabeth's baptism, coinciding with Clive's last voyage to India, was written a prayer verse: " An Aged Sire's longing Eyes to feast / And fill with Rapture his Clarinda's Breast / From Indostan unto his native shore / With Laurels crown'd may CLIVE as heretofore / Return, Thou King of Heaven, we implore.

Following Clive's departure the house was bought by Paul Robinson ( Stefan Dennis ) for the Daniels Corporation, who wanted the land to build a supermarket on.

Clive's older brother Dudley Starr, also known as Serge Pompidou, ( David Verrey ) became the new chef at The Lock.

After everybody has retired to bed, Trevor wakes up Errol and shows him Peter Clive's keys, which Trevor claims to have picked up after Peter dropped them.

Clive continued to be involved in ongoing Parliamentary discussions on company reforms, during which General John Burgoyne, one of Clive's most vocal enemies, pressed the case in 1773 that some of Clive's gains were made at the expense of the Company and the government.

Adam started an affair with Clive's flatmate Gabby, which the ex-wife tried to break up.

David discovers Dr. Clive's laboratory, which contains a machine that can harness the sun's gamma radiation.

The sequence introduced in the second series features shots of actors in various styles of dress and activity whose exposed skin had been blackened out as though the actors are performing blackface as a special effect, and in between scenes, there is a shot of Clive's hand pressing his buzzer.

It is equally the story of Colonel Newcome's son, Clive, who studies and travels for the purpose of becoming a painter, although the profession is frowned on by some of his relatives and acquaintances — notably Clive's snobbish, backstabbing cousin Barnes Newcome.

Hastings served as a volunteer in Clive's forces as they retook Calcutta in January 1757.

By this stage Hastings shared Clive's view that the three major British Presidencies ( settlements ), Madras, Bombay and Calcutta, should all be brought under a single rule rather than being governed separately as they currently were.

In the conflict, Clive's bravery came to the attention Major Stringer Lawrence, who arrived in 1748 to take command of the British troops at Fort St. David.

Lawrence wrote of Clive's action that " he behaved in courage and in judgment much beyond what could be expected from his years.

Clive's men were subjected to frequent sniper attacks and disease, lowering the garrison size to 200.

Clive's small force maintained its composure, and established killing fields outside the walls of the fort where the attackers sought to gain entry.

Several hundred attackers were killed and many more wounded, while Clive's small force suffered only four British and two sepoy casualties.

Nearly 250 years later in 1998, illegally salvaged coins from Clive's treasure chest were offered for sale, and in 2002 a portion of the coins were given to the South African government after protracted legal wrangling.

For two days, the army marched past Clive's camp to take up a position east of Calcutta.

By noon, Clive's force broke through the besieging camp and arrived safely at Fort William.

" It is nevertheless cited as an example of Clive's unscrupulousness.

After heavy rain, Clive's 3, 200 men and the nine guns crossed the river and took possession of the grove and its tanks of water, while Clive established his head-quarters in a hunting lodge.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

But her father was not enthusiastic about sending young Paula to high school.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

My father, who liked Alfred very much, was a constant visitor.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.

Karl was an almost exact copy of his father physically and it was strange to see the expected become the unexpected.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills ; ;

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His father was a constant visitor.