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29 de dic. de 2014 · Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, was one of the eighteenth century’s great political survivors and served as First Lord of the Treasury through peace and war. Born in Sussex in July 1693, he was the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, first baron Pelham of Laughton, and his second wife, Lady Grace Holles. He was educated at Westminster ...
Pelham died on 23 Feb. 1712 of an apoplexy, the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony, Lord Ashley*), writing, ‘I am sorry for the death of my old friend, Lord Pelham. I have taken him all along for one of the honestest of men and most true to the interests of the public’. Both his sons, Thomas, who was created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, and ...
The shield in the arms of the Earl of Chichester is the same as that of the Earl of Yarborough. Earl of Chichester is a title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The current title was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801 for Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baron ...
The Duke of Newcastle was born Thomas Pelham-Hobbes in 1693. He was the heir of Thomas, First Baron Pelham and his Lady Grace Holles. He was educated at Westminster and Clare College, Cambridge, which he left without a degree. In 1712, he became the Second Baron Pelham, inheriting his father’s estate and peerage, becoming Lord Pelham.
Thomas (Pelham), Baron Pelham of Stanmer [1762], and 6th Baronet [1611], cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of Thomas Pelham, of Stanmer aforesaid (d. 1737), 3d s. (but the only one that had issue) of Henry Pelham , Clerk of the Pells ( d. 1 April 1721), who was yr. br. of Thomas, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton , both being sons of Sir John Pelham, 3d Bart.
Thomas [Pelham later Pelham-Holles], 2nd Baron Pelham later 1st Earl of Clare later 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne later 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG PC. created. 19 Oct 1714 Viscount Haughton and Earl of Clare, with remainder failing his issue male to his younger brother Hon Henry Pelham
Henry was the 2nd son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton, and younger brother of the statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyne. Like his brother, he was educated at Westminster School before attending Oxford. Henry soon entered politics, becoming M.P. for Seaford, Sussex in 1717 (a seat arranged for him by ...
