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Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne was a title that was created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain.The first grant of the title was made in 1665 to William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle upon Tyne. [1]
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 ...
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]
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
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, Marquess of Clare, Earl of Clare: Dukedom of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (3rd creation) and Marquessate of Clare extinct, 1768 Earldom of Clare extinct, 1768: Duke of Newcastle-Under-Lyne, 1756 (succeeded by special remainder, 1768) Norreys Fynes (1720–1764) George Clinton (1718–1730)
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
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.
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