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Catherine "Kitty" Clive (née Raftor; 1711-6 December 1785) was a British actress of considerable repute on the stages of London.

Most likely born in London, her father William Raftor was an Irishman and former officer in the French army under Louis XIV. Starting at approximately age 17, she worked at the Drury Lane theatre, shortly afterwards marrying George Clive, a barrister and brother to Baron Clive. The marriage was not a success, and she returned quickly to the acting trade. In the early 1730s she fully established herself as a popular actress. In 1747, she became one of the founding members of David Garrick's acting company.

She retired in 1769 to a villa in Twickenham that had been a gift from her friend Horace Walpole, dying there in 1785.

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