Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

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Whig, Liberal Party
Spouse
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(m. 1854)​
Parent(s)William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland
Lady Catherine Powlett
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
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Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

government in 1866 over the question of parliamentary reform, he was considered a possible compromise prime minister in a Whig-Conservative
anti-reform coalition government, but such plans came to nothing.

Origins

Vane was the third son of William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland KG (1766–1842), by his wife Lady Catherine Margaret Powlett, daughter of Admiral Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton (1720–1794). His elder brothers were Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland KG (1788–1864), and William Vane, 3rd Duke of Cleveland (1792–1864).

Career

Vane was educated at

Uppington, Shropshire where part of his estates were.[8]

He owned 104,000 acres including 55,000 acres in Durham, 25,000 acres in Salop and 6,000 acres in Suffolk.[9]

Marriage

At Chevening on 2 August 1854, Vane married Lady Dalmeny (1819–1901), the daughter of Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope and widow of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, by whom she was the mother of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who was seven years old at that time. The marriage was without issue.

Death and succession

Cleveland died in August 1891, aged 88, at his London townhouse Cleveland House, 16 St James's Square, Westminster, London.[1] Thereupon the line of succession to his peerages became unclear. In 1891 the Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords declared the title of Duke of Cleveland extinct but declared Henry de Vere Vane to be the rightful heir of the title Baron Barnard and to the estates of Raby Castle and Barnard Castle, which latter had been purchased in 1626 by the Vane family.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d thepeerage.com Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland
  2. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
  4. ^ "No. 22915". The London Gazette. 25 November 1864. p. 5797.
  5. ^ "No. 22958". The London Gazette. 14 April 1865. p. 2040.
  6. OCLC 8047
    ., p. 439.
  7. ISBN 0-9507849-0-7
    .
  8. ^ "Church of the Holy Trinity, Wroxeter and Uppington, Shropshire".
  9. ^ The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland
  10. ^ The Official Gazette of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Durham 1908 to 1919. Durham Freemasons. 1919. p. 172.

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