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Type of entity
Family
Authorized form of name
Clive family, of Mynde Park
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Dates of existence
History
The Pye family were reputed to be descended from Viking mercenaries who came with William the Conqueror in 1066 and were rewarded with lands on the Welsh borders in Herefordshire around Kilpeck. The Mynde near Much Dewchurch in Herefordshire was the family seat in Tudor times.
Richard Symons of London purchased the Mynde estate, Herefordshire, in around 1740. His brother John owned the Clowerwall estate in Gloucestershire. Richard Symons's only surviving child was Anna-Sophia Symons, whose son, Richard Peers inherited the Mynde estate and assumed the surname of Symons. Richard was created a baronet in 1774, but died unmarried in 1796, when the title became extinct. The property devolved on his death upon Thomas Raymond, who on succeeding to the estate assumed the surname and arms of Symons. The estate then devolved in direct male line until Thomas-George Symons (b. 1818). On his death the estate was inherited by Henry Ambrose Clive, younger son of General Edward Henry Clive of Perrystone Court, Herefordshire.