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Há 3 dias · John's heir was his nephew Thomas Pelham-Holles, later duke of Newcastle. By 1739 Ifield had passed to Newcastle's brother Henry Pelham (d. 1754), whose heirs were his four daughters. One of them, Frances, was described as sole lady of the manor in 1770; c. 1786 she sold Ifield to Thomas Dennett (d. 1793 × 1801).
Há 5 dias · Bute replaced Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, as first lord of the Treasury (in effect, prime minister) in May 1762, and in February 1763 he signed the Treaty of Paris, which made peace with France but was extremely unpopular in England.
Há 2 dias · "Thomas Lord Pelham, eldest son of Thomas Lord Pelham and Grace his second lady, youngest sister of John Duke of Newcastle, was born the 21st of July, 1694. He had this large estate left him by the last will of his uncle, bearing date July 15th, 1711, and that he should bear the name and arms of Holles ".
Há 5 dias · John, Duke of Newcastle devised the estate at Bushton and other Holles properties to his nephew Thomas Pelham (d. 1768) in 1707. (fn. 131) Thomas Pelham, who assumed the additional surname of Holles, was created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, (fn. 132) and in 1743 he sold the estate, then known as Bushton Farm and reckoned at 80 a., to ...
Há 5 dias · How little he thought, that his estates and his blood would centre in the heir of this tyrannical earl, which the duke of Newcastle is! The 4th and last earl of Clare married the coheiress of H. Cavendish, duke of Newcastle, and was himself, after the death of his father-in-law, in 1691, created duke by that title; his own estate, and the Cavendish together, amounting to 40,000l. per annum.
Há 4 dias · The city’s name revives that of the earliest English settlement, before Newcastle and Chatham assumed the names of British statesmen William Pitt (earl of Chatham) and Thomas Pelham-Holles (duke of Newcastle). First settled to exploit the salmon fishery, both towns developed with the lumber and allied trades and, in the age of ...
Há 5 dias · The death of James, it seemed, secured the Duke’s position under the new king, Charles I, and removed the main obstacle to their plans for war. The consequences of Buckingham’s administration of medicine to the dying King, as Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell show in their fascinating, landmark new book, were seismic.
