Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth

Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth, (4 February 1889 – 1 October 1943), was an English nobleman and Conservative Party politician.

Early life Ivor Windsor-Clive was born on 4 February 1889. He was the second, and only surviving, son of the Alberta Victoria Sarah Caroline (née Paget) Windsor-Clive and Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (1857–1923). He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Until succeeding his father in 1923, he used his father's subsidiary title Viscount Windsor.

His paternal grandfather was Robert Windsor-Clive, himself the son of Harriet Windsor-Clive, 13th Baroness Windsor. Ivor's mother was the daughter of Sir Augustus Paget, the British Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, and descended from the Earls of Uxbridge. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1931 to 1932, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1932 to 1936, and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1936 to 1939.

He is probably best known for his work as co-chairman of the International Committee for Non-Intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan in 1923, and a Privy Counsellor in the 1929 Dissolution Honours. He was made an Honorary freedom of Cardiff in 1936, served as the charter mayor of the Borough of Barry in 1939, President of the National Museum of Wales and as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales 1941. He was appointed Sub-Prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1943.

On 12 March 1924 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Glamorgan Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery; his father had held the same position with its Victorian predecessor unit.

Lord Plymouth was Chairman of the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments in the Principality.

Personal life On 14 July 1921, he was married to Lady Irene Corona Charteris (1902–1989), the third daughter of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, and Mary Constance Wyndham, herself one of the three famous Wyndham sisters, all daughters of Percy Wyndham. Together, Ivor and Irene were the parents of: Hon. Richard Archer Alan Windsor-Clive (1928–2014), who married Joanna Mary Woodall, daughter of Edward Corbet Woodall, in 1955. They divorced in 1968 and that same year he married Mary Alice (née Jolliffe) Chancellor (mother of Anna Chancellor), only daughter of William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton. They divorced in 1997.

Descendants Through his son Other, he was the grandfather of Ivor Edward Other Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of Plymouth (born 1951); Lady Emma Windsor-Clive; Hon. Simon Windsor-Clive and Hon. David Windsor-Clive.