Around 50 men gathered to "defend" the statue of Robert Clive in Shrewsbury, ... More than 10,000 people signed a petition to have the statue in Shrewsbury's Market Square removed and a ...

Clive was born on the Styche Hall estate, near Market Drayton, in 1725 and went to school in London before travelling to India with the East India Company in 1743.

More than 20,000 people have signed two online petitions calling for the Clive of India statue in Shrewsbury to be torn down due to Robert Clive's role in establishing British power in India.

Standing in Shrewsbury's Square since 1860, the statue is of Shropshire-born Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey - the anglicised name for the Bengali village, Palashi. He's known by history ...

Clive has attracted new scrutiny in this age of statue-toppling, and it has been agreed that his statue in The Square, Shrewsbury, should be given an "interpretation board." ...

Clive, born in Market Drayton in Shropshire before his schooling in London, travelled to India for the East India Company in 1743 before returning to his London home later in life where he died in ...

Few of our list of Great Salopians have changed the world in the way that Robert Clive did. Yet in his early life he seemed more likely to be heading for the hangman's noose than fame and fortune.

Some people want this statue of Clive of India removed following the toppling of a monument to a slave trader In Shrewsbury, there's controversy over a statue depicting a figure from Britain's ...