Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, (8 April 1907 – 4 November 1988), styled Earl of Lincoln from 1928 to 1941, was a British peer and aviator.

Background

Born at

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, Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope was the oldest son of

Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (3 February 1866 – 20 April 1941) was an English nobleman. Biography Born in 1866, Hope was son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Eton C ...

, and his wife, Olive Muriel Thompson, daughter of the Australian banker George Horatio Thompson. Pelham-Clinton-Hope was educated at

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in Wiltshire followed by

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and then at

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. In 1928, he (and not his father) inherited the family seat of

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from his uncle Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; and he succeeded his father as duke in 1941. The house was demolished in the late 1930s and plans to rebuild it on a smaller scale were never undertaken; the estate was sold to the

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in 1946. Having succeeded as Duke of Newcastle in 1941, during the 1950s he moved the family seat to Boyton Manor in

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Career

In 1936, while known by the courtesy title of Earl of Lincoln, the future Duke joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and served in the

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. In 1938 he was transferred to become

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of No. 616 (South Yorkshire) (Fighter) Squadron. He fought in the

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, and after its end in 1945 was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. From 1947, he commanded an air defence unit in

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as a wing commander. He was a deputy lieutenant of

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(1937–1948) and served the county as a

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(1933–1948). In 1948 the Duke migrated to

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, where his daughter Patricia was born. At the point of his death in 1988 his usual address was 5 Quay Hill,

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and he held net (probated) assets of £3,163,807 ().

Family

On 23 March 1931, the then Lord Lincoln married Jean Gimbernat (died 1968), the former wife of Jules Raymond Gimbernat, Jr. and daughter of Mabel Grant Hatch and Eugene Kelly Austin, adopted by her mother's second husband, David Banks of

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. They were divorced in 1940. On 30 November 1946, the Duke of Newcastle (as he by then was) married again Lady Mary Diana Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (known as Diana; 2 June 1920 – 19 September 1997), second daughter of Archibald Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Wharncliffe, by his marriage to Lady Maud Lillian Elfreda Mary Wentworth-Fitzwilliam. By his second wife, he had two daughters: *Lady Patricia Pelham-Clinton-Hope (born 20 July 1949); in 1971 she married firstly Alan Pariser, and was divorced in 1974; then secondly in 1981 the Canadian actor

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, divorced 1983. She has a son, Dorian Henry Navarr Pelham-Clinton-Hope, born in 1990, and in 2008 was living in Palm Beach, Florida.''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (Debrett's Peerage Limited, 2008), p. 1,055 *Lady Kathleen Marie Gabrielle Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1 January 1951 – 1 May 2016), married in 1970 Edward Vernon Reynolds (divorced), and had a daughter, Roxanna, with Alan Dawson. In 2008, she was living at Ballinakil, Kilfinny, near

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, Ireland. After another divorce in 1959, on 23 October of the same year, Newcastle married Sally Ann Wemyss (d. 2015), former wife of Fikret Jemal and eldest daughter of Brigadier John Henry Anstice, of Kyrenia, Cyprus. Upon his death on 4 November 1988, he was briefly succeeded in the Dukedom by

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, a descendant of a younger son of the 4th Duke, but with his successor's death on Christmas Day 1988 the Dukedom became extinct. A distant Australian cousin, Edward Fiennes-Clinton, then succeeded as Earl of Lincoln.

References

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