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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    last two uncles on the same day: Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester. Originally, dukedoms were created...
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  • John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (1564–1637) John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare (1595–1666) Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare (1633–1689) John Holles, 4th Earl...
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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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    ministry governed the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was headed by Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, serving in his second stint as prime minister...
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  • Walpole, associated to Walpole through the interest of his patron Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. He was born about 1682. He matriculated at...
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    finding her a suitable marriage partner. Henrietta eventually married Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in April 1717, and the rest of...
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    ministers. Bath was invited to form a ministry by George II when Henry Pelham resigned in 1746, as was Waldegrave in 1757 after the dismissal of William...
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  • Royal Navy officer and politician. Benefiting from the patronage of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, he served as a naval captain during the 1720s...
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    King, supposedly following custom, appointed the Lord Chamberlain (Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle) as one of the baptismal sponsors of the child...
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    was settled. It was incorporated in 1746. The town is named after Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. According to the United States Census Bureau...
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  • Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (b. 1668) 1768 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister...
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  • position of Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1721 and worked with Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In an effort to increase tax income, Walpole...
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    national library. In May 1762, the incumbent Whig government of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, was replaced with one led by Lord Bute, a...
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    Her titles passed to her nephew, the 5th Earl of Sunderland. Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme Boswell, James (1950). Boswell's...
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  • Baron Pelham may refer to: Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653–1712) Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768) Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl...
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  • Legge (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin Robert Nugent 22 November 1755 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (First Lord)...
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  • local girl. Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet, was his great-grandfather and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and Henry Pelham his first cousins once...
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    Jeremiah and Jasper, Joseph Rose, Mary Brazier (the gang's fence), John Jones, Thomas Rowden and a young John Wheeler, needed contacts to help them to dispose...
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  • Peek (mariner) Pelham, Massachusetts – Henry Pelham (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Pelham, New Hampshire – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle...
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  • poet and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1721) 1693 – Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English politician, Prime Minister of Great...
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  • than when they were first invented. The precursor to the Whigs was Denzil Holles' parliamentarian faction, which was characterised by its opposition to absolute...
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