Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle

Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (18 August 1920 – 25 December 1988), known as Edward Pelham-Clinton until November 1988, was an English nobleman for a period of less than two months, inheriting the title from a third cousin. He had previously served in the Royal Artillery in World War II during which conflict he was mentioned once in dispatches and had a career as a lepidopterist.

Education and career

Pelham-Clinton was the son of Guy Edward Pelham-Clinton, a minor army officer, and a great-great-grandson of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford and served as a captain in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War in which conflict his younger brother, a RAF Flying Officer, Alastair, died aged 20 in 1943.^[1]

He was an expert lepidopterist and Deputy Keeper, 1960-1980, of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.^[2]

Brief succession to dukedom and earldom

Pelham-Clinton succeeded his third cousin in the earldom and dukedom in November 1988. He died 1 month, 21 days later, aged 68, unmarried.^[2] As all other direct male heirs from the first Duke's line had died the dukedom became extinct. His junior title of Earl of Lincoln was inherited by a distant relative. He died holding net publicly sworn probate assets of £2,222,203 (equivalent to £5,500,000 in 2016) and his stated usual abode was Furzeleigh House, Axminster.

Ancestry

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