Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle

Thomas Pelham-Clinton

3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
In office
1794–1795
Preceded by| Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Succeeded by| Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Member of the British Parliament
for Westminster
In office
1774–1780
Member of the British Parliament
for East Retford
In office
1781–1794
Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire
In office
1794–1795
Personal details
Born| 1 July 1752
Died| 18 May 1795
Spouse| Anna Maria Stanhope
Children| 4
Military service
Branch/service| British Army
Rank| Major-General

Major-General Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1 July 1752 – 18 May 1795),[1] known as Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton until 1779 and as Earl of Lincoln from 1779 to 1794, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1794 when he succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Newcastle.

Born on 1 July and christened on 28 July 1752 at St Margaret's, Westminster,[2] Pelham-Clinton was the second but eldest surviving son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne,[1] and his wife Lady Catherine Pelham, daughter of Henry Pelham. After his education he embarked on a military career. In April 1774, he accompanied General Henry Lloyd, General Henry Clinton and Major Thomas Carleton as "English observers" of the Second Russo-Turkish War on the Danube (Speelman, 2002). He served in America during the American War of Independence as Aide-de-Camp to his relative, General Sir Henry Clinton, and was later Aide-de-Camp to the King. He achieved the rank of Major-General in 1787.

Pelham-Clinton also sat as Member of Parliament for Westminster from 1774 to 1780 and for East Retford from 1781 to 1794 and was Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire from 1794 to 1795. In February 1794 he succeeded his father in the dukedom.[1]

Pelham-Clinton married Lady Anna Maria Stanhope, daughter of William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington, in May 1782.[1] They had two sons and two daughters. He died, at his country seat at Sunninghill in Berkshire, in May 1795, aged 42, from the effects of an emetic which he had taken for whooping cough, having held the dukedom for only a year. He was succeeded by his eldest son Henry. The Duchess of Newcastle-under-Lyne later married General Sir Charles Gregan Craufurd and died in 1834.

Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodney, with Neptune, during the Westminster election of 1780

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "PELHAM CLINTON, Lord Thomas (1752–95)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
2. ^ William Coxe, Memoirs of the Administration of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Volume 1 (London: Longman, Brown, Rees, Orme & Green, 1829), p. xxx

### Bibliography[edit]

* Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (editors) (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. New York: St Martin's Press. `{{cite book}}`: `|first2=` has generic name (help)
* Mosley, Charles (2002). Debrett's Peerage (106th ed.). London.
* Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
* Speelman, Patrick J. (2002). Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth-Century Europe. pp. 83–84.

## External links[edit]

* Biography of the 3rd Duke, with links to online catalogues, from Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham

Parliament of Great Britain

Preceded by

Lord Warkworth
Sir Robert Bernard, Bt

|  Member of Parliament for Westminster
with Lord Warkworth 1774–1776
Viscount Petersham 1776–1779
Viscount Malden 1779–1780
1774–1780  | Succeeded by

Sir George Brydges Rodney
Charles James Fox

Preceded by

Lord John Pelham-Clinton
Wharton Amcotts

|  Member of Parliament for East Retford
with Wharton Amcotts 1781–1790
Sir John Ingilby, Bt 1781–1794
1781–1784  | Succeeded by

Sir John Ingilby, Bt
William Henry Clinton

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Preceded by

George Morrison

|  Colonel of the 75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment)
1782–1783  | Succeeded by

Regiment disbanded

Preceded by

Thomas Gage

|  Colonel of the 17th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons
1785–1795  | Succeeded by

Oliver de Lancey

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Preceded by

The Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne

|  Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire
1794–1795  | Succeeded by

The Duke of Portland

Peerage of Great Britain
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Henry Pelham-Clinton

|  Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
1794–1795  | Succeeded by

Henry Pelham-Clinton

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