Nottinghamshire 
ContentsSir William Cavendish, nephew of the first Earl of Devonshire, was created Baron Ogle, and Viscount Mansfield, in 1620, Baron Cavendish of Bolsover on 1628, Earl of Newcastle in 1631, Marquis of Newcastle in 1643, and Earl Ogle and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1644. This was the famous Equestrian Duke of Newcastle, who reside at Welbeck. He died in 1676, and was succeeded in his honours and estates by his son, Henry Cavendish, who married the daughter of William Pierrepoint Esq. of Thoresby Hall, and died in 1691, when his titles became extinct, in consequence of his leaving no male issue.
Margaret, one of his daughters and co-heiresses, married John Holles, fourth Earl of Clare, who in 1694 was created Marquis of Clare, and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Previous to his marriage, he resided at Haughton, but he afterwards removed to Welbeck, where he died in 1711 when, for want of issue, his titles became extinct. He bequeathed his estates to his sister's son, Thomas Pelham, second Baron Pelham, of Laughton, in Sussex, who assumed the name of Holles, and in 1714 was created Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in 1715 Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne. At his death, in 1768, all his titles became extinct, except those of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and Baron Pelham of Stanemere, which descended in marriage with his niece Catharine, to Henry Fiennes Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln, who assumed the name of Pelham, and died in 1794. His son, Thomas Pelham Clinton, died in the following year, and was succeeded by his son, the late most noble Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, Earl of Lincoln, K.G. &c. &c., who died January 12th 1851, and was succeeded by his eldest son, the present, most noble Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle and Earl of Lincoln, who was born in 1811, and highly distinguished himself in the House of Commons, before he succeeded to the dukedom.
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853
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