Clive, —
Clive, —, London, cm (?) (c. 1680). In a letter from the East India Co. to ‘The Chief and Factors of Tonquin’ dated 26 September 1684 concerning ‘some quantity of Joyners ware to be Lackred there’, it was suggested that the advice be sought of a Mr Clive, the purser of the ‘Dragon’. It was stated that he had formerly been a cabinetmaker ‘and kept a great Shop of Such Wares in this City’. [Conn., May 1934, p. 287]