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Detail of the monument to Holles in Westminster Abbey. The duke died in 1711 from injuries received in a fall from his horse while hunting near Welbeck. [6] He left his Cavendish estates to his son-in-law, Edward Harley (later 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer) and the remainder of his property to his nephew Thomas Pelham, subsequently 1st Duke of Newcastle (third creation) and prime ...
The Duke of Newcastle is a title that has been created thrice in British history. The first Duke may refer to: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592–1676), English polymath and aristocrat; John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662–1711), English peer; Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768), British Whig statesman
John Holles may refer to: John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (9 January 1662 – 15 July 1711) John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (May 1564 – 4 October 1637)
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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (1693–1768), Prime Minister twice, a nephew of John Holles (above). He died without male issue. He died without male issue. At this point, his father's baronetcy and barony of 1706, his own earldom and the dukedom of 1715 became extinct.
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle; Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle; Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle; Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle; John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle; Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle; Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle; William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Clumber Park in 1829. Clumber, mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, was a monastic property in the Middle Ages but later came into the hands of the Holles family. [3] In 1707 permission was granted to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to enclose 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of Sherwood Forest, and re-purpose it as a deer park. [4]
Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (née Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles; [1] 11 February 1694 – 9 December 1755) was an English noblewoman, the only child and heiress of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Cavendish, daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.