Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
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Order of the British Empire
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Deputy Lieutenant
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(8 April 1907 – 4 November 1988), styled Earl of Lincoln from 1928 to 1941, was a British
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peer and aviator.
Born at Whitehall Court
Whitehall Court
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, he was the oldest son of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne was an English nobleman.He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge....
and his wife Olive Muriel Thompson, daughter of the Australia
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n banker George Horatio Thompson. Pelham was educated at Eton College
Eton College
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and went then to Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford
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. He inherited the family's seat Clumber House from his uncle Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme was an English nobleman, styled Earl of Lincoln until 1879.Henry was educated at Eton College and then Magdalen College, Oxford....
in preference to his father, whom he succeeded as duke in 1941.
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