Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 (4 February 1889 – 1 October 1943) was an English nobleman and Conservative

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 politician.

The second and only surviving son of the 1st Earl of Plymouth, he was educated at Eton College

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

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. Until succeeding his father in 1923, he used his father's subsidiary title Viscount Windsor

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.

He was member for West St Pancras on London County Council

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 from 1913–1919, and was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament

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 for Ludlow

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, Shropshire

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 at a by-election

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 in January 1922, holding the seat until he succeeded his father in March 1923.