Her first sighting of India was Madras Roads. She found living with the transplanted, small nascent British-Indian community, a pleasant change. She married Robert Clive and became a mother to his many children. From being the wife of the Deputy Governor of Pondicherry she found herself rising with her husband to become the wife of the Governor of Calcutta. Margaret found coping with the life style that she was unused to, challenging. Minor jealousies fomented by his detractors caused the British Parliament to investigate the matter of maladministration. Clive was exonerated. He was nevertheless considerably irked by this. The 49 year old Clive was found dead suspected to have committed suicide. The 21 years of marriage thus ended on 22 November 1774. Margaret, however, lived on to the age of 82 with her eldest son Edward at Oakly Park at Ludlow in Shropshire. Although many of her children died early, she was to witness her eldest son become Governor of Madras in 1798