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Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (25 January 1834 – 22 February 1879) was an English nobleman, styled Lord Clinton until 1851 and Earl of Lincoln until he inherited the dukedom in 1864. Pelham-Clinton was the son of

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, (22 May 181118 October 1864), styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician. Background Newcastle was the son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcast ...

and his wife

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. He was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford. His political career was limited to sitting as

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for Newark between 1857 and 1859. He did not hold any significant political offices in Nottinghamshire, although he was

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of the

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Freemasons from 1865 to 1877. Lincoln's taste for gambling resulted in his fleeing the country in 1860 to escape his debts, which had then reached £230,000 (in excess of £26 million in 2017 terms). In 1861, he married Henrietta Hope, heiress of the wealthy Henry Thomas Hope, in

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. As part of the marriage settlement, his debts were paid and an income of £50,000 a year was settled on the couple. Extensive lands in England and Ireland were also added to his family's holdings by inheritance from his father-in-law, although Pelham-Clinton himself never controlled them due to the terms of that testament. He succeeded his father as Duke of Newcastle in 1864 and had five children with Henrietta: * Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton (1862–1935) who married Sir Cecil Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet in 1880 * Lady Emily Augusta Mary Pelham-Clinton (1863–1919) who married Prince Alphonso Doria Pamphilj, Duc d'Avigliano in 1882 * Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1864–1928) * Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1866–1941) * Lady Florence Josephine Pelham-Clinton (1868–1935)

References

External links

Biography of the 6th Duke, from Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham
* * 1834 births 1879 deaths 19th-century English nobility People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford

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