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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
Coat of arms of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle, KG, PC. The Duke is mainly known today as the creator of Clumber Park, his country seat in Nottinghamshire, and the dog breed the Clumber Spaniel, named after the estate. Clumber Park was begun in 1768 on the large estate the Duke had inherited from his uncle.
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.
Born in 1866, Hope was son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle.He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. [1]He inherited the estate of his grandmother, Anne Adele Hope (widow of Henry Thomas Hope) in 1884, upon condition that he assume the name and arms of Hope upon reaching his majority; he did so in 1887 and became known as Lord Francis Hope.
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