Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle
Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Edward Pelham-Clinton 18 August 1920 |
Died | 25 December 1988 | (aged 68)
Military service | |
Rank | Captain |
Unit | British Army: Royal Artillery |
Awards | Mentioned in dispatches |
Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (18 August 1920 – 25 December 1988), was an English lepidopterist and military officer as well as Duke of Newcastle for less than two months at the end of his life, inheriting the titles from a third cousin. He was thus briefly a member of the House of Lords.
Education and career
Pelham-Clinton was the son of Guy Edward Pelham-Clinton, an army officer and a grandson of Lord Charles Clinton, who was a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Eton,[1] and Trinity College, Oxford, and during the Second World War served as an officer in the Royal Artillery, rising to the rank of captain[2] and being mentioned in dispatches. His younger brother, Alastair Pelham-Clinton, was a Royal Air Force Flying Officer and died in 1943 aged twenty.
Pelham-Clinton was interested in
Succession to peerages
Pelham-Clinton succeeded a third cousin in the earldom and dukedom in November 1988.
References
- ^ a b c "The new duke is Lord of the Flies". Staffordshire Sentinel. British Newspaper Archive. 10 November 1988. p. 1 cols 2–7. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "Biography of Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle (1920-1988)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ a b Emmet, A. M. (1989). "Obituary E. C. Pelham-Clinton" (PDF). Nota Lepidopterologica. 12.
- ^ "FACILITIES". British Entomological & Natural History Society. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ "Newcastle the most noble 10th duke of Edward Charles Pelham Clinton... died 25 December 1988" in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1989, p. 5857