Biography of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme 1720-1794
Paternal Family Tree: Clinton
Maternal Family Tree: Eleanor Gifford 1575
On 16 May 1717 [his father] Henry Clinton 7th Earl Lincoln (age 33) and [his mother] Lucy Pelham Countess Lincoln were married. She by marriage Countess Lincoln. He the son of [his grandfather] Francis Clinton 6th Earl Lincoln and [his grandmother] Susan Penniston Countess Lincoln.
On 16 Apr 1720 Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme was born to Henry Clinton 7th Earl Lincoln (age 36) and Lucy Pelham Countess Lincoln.
In 1730 [his brother] George Clinton 8th Earl Lincoln (age 12) died. His brother Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 9) succeeded 9th Earl Lincoln.
On 17 Oct 1744 Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 24) and Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Lincoln. He the son of Henry Clinton 7th Earl Lincoln and Lucy Pelham Countess Lincoln. They were first cousins.
On 26 Nov 1745 [his son] George Pelham-Clinton was born to Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 25) and [his wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 18). Coefficient of inbreeding 6.31%.
On 05 Nov 1750 [his son] Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton was born to Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 30) and [his wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 23). Coefficient of inbreeding 6.31%.
In 1752 King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (age 68) created a number of new Garter Knights:
567th Prince Edward Hanover 1st Duke of York (age 12).
568th William Orange Nassau V Prince Orange (age 3).
569th Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 31).
570th Daniel Finch 8th Earl Winchilsea 3rd Earl Nottingham (age 62).
571st George Brudenell aka Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 39).
William Dalrymple Crichton 5th Earl Dumfries 4th Earl of Stair (age 53) was appointed 42nd Knight of the Thistle.
Richard Onslow 3rd Baron Onslow (age 39) was appointed Order of the Bath.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 23 Mar 1752. Arlington Street. To Horace Mann 1st Baronet (age 45).
Mr. Conway (age 31) has been arrived this fortnight, or a week sooner than we expected him: but my Lady Ailesbury (age 31) forgives it! He is full of your praises, so you have not sowed your goodness in unthankful ground. By a letter I have just received from you he finds you have missed some from him with Commissions; but he will tell you about them himself I find him much leaner, and great cracks in his beauty. Your picture is arrived, which he says is extremely like you. Mr. Chute (age 51) cannot bear it; says it wants your countenance and goodness; that it looks bonny and Irish. I am between both, and should know it; to be sure, there is none of your wet-brown-paperness in it, but it has a look with which I have known you come out of your little room, when Richcourt has raised your ministerial French, and you have writ to England about it till you were half fuddled. Au reste, it is gloriously coloured-will Astley promise to continue to do as well? or has he, like all other English painters, only laboured this to get reputation, and then intends to daub away to get money?
The year has not kept the promise of tranquillity that it made you at Christmas; there has been another parliamentary bustle. The Duke of Argyll (age 69)299 has drawn the ministry into accommodating him with a notable job, under the notion of buying for the King from the mortgagees the forfeited estates in Scotland, which are to be colonized and civilized. It passed with some inconsiderable hitches through the Commons; but in the Lords last week the Duke of Bedford (age 41) took it up warmly, and spoke like another Pitt.300 He attacked the Duke of Argyll on favouring Jacobites, and produced some flagrant instances, which the Scotch Duke neither answered nor endeavoured to excuse, but made a strange, hurt, mysterious, contemptuous, incoherent speech, neither in defence of the bill nor in reply to the Duke of Bedford, but to my Lord Bath (age 68), who had fallen upon the ministry for assuming a dispensing power, in suffering Scotland to pay no taxes for the last five years. This speech, which formerly would have made the House of Commons take up arms, was strangely flat and unanimated, for want of his old chorus. Twelve lords divided against eighty that were for the bill. The Duke, who was present, would not vote; none of his people had attended the bill in the other House, and General Mordaunt (age 55) (by his orders, as it is imagined) spoke against it. This concludes the session: the King goes to Hanover on Tuesday, he has been scattering ribands of all colours, blue ones [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Garter] on Prince Edward (age 12), the young Stadtholder, and the Earls of Lincoln (age 31), Winchilsea (age 62), and Cardigan (age 39);301 a green one [Note. Reference to being created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle] on Lord Dumfries;302 a red [Note. Order of the Bath] on Lord Onslow (age 39).303
The world is still mad about the Gunnings; the Duchess of Hamilton (age 18) was presented on Friday; the crowd was so great, that even the noble mob in the drawing-room clambered upon chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs; and people go early to get places at the theatres when it is known they will be there. Dr. Sacheverel never made more noise than these two beauties [Note. Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll and Maria Gunning Countess Coventry (age 19)].
There are two wretched women that just now are as much talked of, a Miss Jefferies1 and a Miss Blandy (age 32)2; the one condemned for murdering her uncle, the other her father. Both their stories have horrid circumstances; the first, having been debauched by her uncle; the other had so tender a parent, that his whole concern while he was expiring, and knew her for his murderess, was to save her life. It is shocking to think what a shambles this country is grown! Seventeen were executed this morning, after having murdered the turnkey on Friday night, and almost forced open Newgate. One is forced to travel, even at noon, as if one was going to battle.
Mr. Chute is as much yours as ever, except in the article of pen and ink. Your brother transacts all he can for the Lucchi, as he has much more weight there304 than Mr. Chute. Adieu!
Note 299. Archibald Campbell, Duke of argyll, formerly Earl of Isla.
Note 300. For Lord Hardwicke's notes of this speech, see Parl. Hist. vol. xiv. P. 1235.-E.
Note 301. George Brudenell, fourth Earl of cardigan, created Duke of Montagu in 1776; died in 1790.-D.
Note 302. William Crichton Dalrymple (age 53), fourth Earl [Note. Mistake. He was 5th Earl] of Dumfries in Scotland, in right of his mother. He also became, in 1760, fourth Earl of stair, and died in 1768.-D.
Note 303. George, third Lord Onslow; died in 1776.-D.
Note 304. With the late Mr. Whithed's brothers, who scrupled paying a small legacy and annuity to his mistress and child.
Note 1. Elizabeth Jeffries was to have received her uncle's estate but as a consequence of her bad behaviour he stated he would change his will. She, with accomplices, murdered her uncle. She was executed at a temporary gibbet at the Sixth Milestone Epping Forest on 28 Mar 1572.
Note 2. Mary Blandy who was found guilty of poisoning her father and executed on 06 Apr 1752.
On 01 Jul 1752 [his son] Thomas Pelham-Clinton 3rd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme was born to Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 32) and [his wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 25). Coefficient of inbreeding 6.31%.
On 17 Nov 1756 [his uncle] Thomas Pelham Holles 1st Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 63) was created 1st Duke Newcastle under Lyme with a special remainder to his nephew by marriage Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 36) husband of his niece [his wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 29).
In 1760 [his wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne (age 33) died.
On 17 Nov 1768 [his uncle] Thomas Pelham Holles 1st Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 75) died without issue. He was buried in the Pelham family vault at All Saint's Church, Laughton.
Duke Newcastle upon Tyne, Marquess Clare, Earl Clare, Viscount Haughton and Baron Pelham of Laughton extinct.
Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 48) succeeded 2nd Duke Newcastle under Lyme. [his former wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne by marriage Duchess Newcastle under Lyme.
Thomas Pelham 1st Earl Chichester (age 40) succeeded 2nd Baron Pelham of Stanmer in Sussex and 6th Baronet Pelham of Laughton.
On 21 May 1775 [his son] Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (age 24) and [his daughter-in-law] Frances Seymour-Conway were married. She the daughter of Francis Seymour-Conway 1st Marquess Hertford (age 56) and Isabella Fitzroy Countess Hertford (age 48). He the son of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 55) and [his former wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 02 May 1782 [his son] Thomas Pelham-Clinton 3rd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 29) and [his daughter-in-law] Anna Maria Stanhope Countess Lincoln were married. She the daughter of William Stanhope 2nd Earl of Harrington and Caroline Fitzroy Countess Harrington (age 60). He the son of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 62) and [his former wife] Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 22 Feb 1794 Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 73) died. His son [his son] Thomas Pelham-Clinton 3rd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 41) succeeded 3rd Duke Newcastle under Lyme, 10th Earl Lincoln. [his daughter-in-law] Anna Maria Stanhope Countess Lincoln by marriage Countess Lincoln.
[his son] John Pelham-Clinton was born to Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme and Catherine Pelham Duchess Newcastle under Lyne. Coefficient of inbreeding 6.31%.
Kings Wessex: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 16 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 16 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Clinton 8th Baron Clinton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Poynings Baroness Clinton 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Clinton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Clinton 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: Francis Clinton 6th Earl Lincoln 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Father: Henry Clinton 7th Earl Lincoln 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Penniston
GrandMother: Susan Penniston Countess Lincoln
Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton 2nd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Pelham 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Sackville 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Walsingham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Walsingham Baroness Pelham Laughton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Guildford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Pelham 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sidney
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Dudley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Gamage of Coity Castle 11 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Barbara Gamage Countess Leicester 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney Baroness Pelham Laughton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Countess Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 1st Earl Essex 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lettice Knollys Countess Essex 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Lucy Pelham Countess Lincoln 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Denzil Holles
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Holles 1st Earl de Clare 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Sheffield 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Holles 2nd Earl de Clare 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Stanhope 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Stanhope Countess de Clare 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Port
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Holles 3rd Earl de Clare 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Vere 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Horace de Vere 1st Baron Vere 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Hardkyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vere Countess Clare 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tracy
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Tracy Baroness Spencer Tilbury
GrandMother: Grace Holles Baroness Pelham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Pierrepont 10 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Pierrepont 1st Earl Kingston 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Cavendish 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Pierrepont of Thoresby 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Talbot 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Gertrude Talbot Baroness Pierrepont Holme Pierrepoint 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Rayner
Great x 1 Grandmother: Grace Pierrepont Countess de Clare 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harries of Cruckton in Shropshire
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Harries aka Harris 1st Baronet
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Prowde
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harries aka Harris
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Gifford
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Gifford