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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768) was an English Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, and whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is commonly known as the Duke of Newcastle. [1]
In 1756, when his brother died without male issue and it was evident that the Duke would have no children, the Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne was additionally created Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne with a different special remainder: to his nephew-by-marriage Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln, who rapidly took on the additional surname Pelham.
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 ...
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC (22 May 1811 – 18 October 1864), styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician and aristocrat. He sat in Parliament for South Nottinghamshire (1832–46) and for Falkirk Burghs (1846–51) until inheriting the dukedom.
Major-General Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1 July 1752 – 18 May 1795), [1] known as Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton until 1779 and as Earl of Lincoln from 1779 to 1794, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1794 when he succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Newcastle.
In 1948 the Duke migrated to Southern Rhodesia, where his daughter Patricia was born. At the point of his death in 1988 his usual address was 5 Quay Hill, Lymington and he held net (probated) assets of £3,163,807 (equivalent to £10,700,000 in 2023).
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
Pelham-Clinton succeeded a third cousin in the earldom and dukedom in November 1988. [1] He died one month and 21 days later, aged 68, unmarried. As all other heirs male from the second duke's line had died, the dukedom became extinct, but the peerage of Earl of Lincoln was inherited by a distant kinsman in Australia.