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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
Lady Susan Hamilton
Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Opdebeck (; 9 June 181428 November 1889) was a Scottish aristocrat. The daughter of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, and Susan Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, Susan Euphemia Beckford, she at once was a star ...
. He was educated at
Eton College
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and
Christ Church, Oxford.
His political career was limited to sitting as
Member of Parliament
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for
Newark between 1857 and 1859. He did not hold any significant political offices in Nottinghamshire, although he was
Provincial Grand Master
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of the
Nottinghamshire
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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
Paris
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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
006
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Henry
Henry may refer to:
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*Henry (given name)
* Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
Lincoln, Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of
Lincoln, Henry Pelham-Clinton, Earl of
UK MPs who inherited peerages
Henry
Henry may refer to:
People
*Henry (given name)
* Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
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