Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln

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The Earl of Lincoln
Lord Lincoln's coat of arms
Personal details
Born(1913-02-23)23 February 1913
Melbourne, Australia
Died7 July 2001(2001-07-07) (aged 88)
Spouse(s)Lelia Ruth Millen
Linda Alice Creed
ChildrenLady Patricia Elrick
Edward Fiennes-Clinton, Lord Fynes
Parent(s)Edward Henry Fiennes-Clinton
Edith Annie Guest
EducationHale School

Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln (23 February 1913 – 7 July 2001) was an

family's earldom of Lincoln (cr. 1572) by primogeniture upon the death in 1988 of his 10th cousin, the last Duke of Newcastle
.

Life

Born at

His mother, Edith Annie, daughter of Captain Horace Guest, brought him up before remarrying, in 1923, Robert Johnston Lynn,

.

Educated at

independent Anglican boarding school in Perth, Western Australia, Fiennes-Clinton then worked as a boilermaker, a welder's and machine-minder's assistant as well as a butcher at the Kalgoorlie Gold Mine.[3]

Story

Fiennes-Clinton learned of his succession to the earldom of Lincoln during a telephone call from a

peerage itself.[3]

The

City of Lincoln. The story was soon fictionalized as a storyline in the Australian soap opera Neighbours.[3]

He later wrote an

Upper House by Lord Deedes, and having been received at the College of Arms, Lincoln stated his intention of joining the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. However, there were delays in the process of claiming his seat, which was defeated by the reforms of the upper house in the House of Lords Act 1999.[3] Lincoln thereafter had no automatic right to sit in the Lords, as all but 92 hereditary peers had been removed. His grandson, the 19th Earl, was later courted by New Labour
.

Lord Lincoln died in Western Australia on 7 July 2001.[4]

Family

In 1940, Fiennes-Clinton married Leila Ruth Fitzpatrick,

styled Lord Fynes, by courtesy).[4]

After his first wife died on 19 July 1947, Fiennes-Clinton on 3 December 1953 married Linda Alice, daughter of Rev Charles Creed and widow of James Anthony O'Brien; they had no children.[4][5]

When his

Dukes of Newcastle.[5]

The family has served in public life since the

Prime Minister.[6] The peerage of Baron Clinton, created by writ of summons, to which all descendants are in remainder, is now held by the Trefusis family.[7]

Lincoln's grandson Robert Edward Fiennes-Clinton (born 19 June 1972) is the 19th and present earl.[5] A fellow of the Zoological Society of London, he lives in Perth.[4][8]


References

  1. ^ "Details".
  2. ^ Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107th edition, 2003), vol. 2, p. 2340
  3. ^ a b c d "The Earl of Lincoln" (obituary) in The Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2001, online
  4. ^ a b c d Charles Kidd, Christine Shaw, Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008 (London: Debrett's, 2008), p. 863
  5. ^ a b c The Earldom of Lincoln at Nottingham.ac.uk
  6. ^ Charles Kidd & David Williamson (eds.), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990 edn),[page needed]
  7. ^ "REGISTER OF THE PEERAGE". hereditarypeers. Retrieved 21 March 2024.

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Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Pelham-Clinton

Earl of Lincoln

1989–2001
Succeeded by
Robert Fiennes-Clinton