Educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was rector of Solihull in Warwickshire (1829-47); in 1840 he married the writer Caroline Meysey-Wigley.

REFERENCES TO Archer Clive:

John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 4 October 1840 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)