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    Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC, FRS (21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768) was an English...
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  • Duke of Newcastle (category Pelham family)
    once in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was conferred in 1756 on Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (of the third creation), to provide...
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    younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Pelham is generally considered...
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    Grace Holles (daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and Grace Pierrepoint), with whom he had two sons and five daughters: Hon. Grace Pelham (died...
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    July 1776), was the wife of British statesman and prime minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. She was the daughter of Francis Godolphin...
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  • 1678–1759), Member of Parliament for Lewes Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) Thomas Pelham (of Stanmer) (c. 1705–1737), Turkey merchant...
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    second wife Lady Grace Holles, daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare (see the Earl of Clare). Sons of 1st Baron Pelham serving as Prime Minister...
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    May 1692 – 4 June 1694 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4 June 1694 – 15 July 1711 vacant Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
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    them as well as most fathers." In 1754 Pelham died, to be succeeded by his elder brother, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. Hostility between...
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    from India to secure (1762) an Irish barony from the then Whig PM, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and a seat for himself in Parliament, via...
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