Henry Fiennes Pelham- Clinton, second duke of Newcastle

(1720-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Newcastle, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Duke of, 1720-1794 NRA: Clinton Henry Fiennes (1720-1794) 2nd Duke of Newcastle DNB: Clinton, Henry Fiennes Pelham-, ninth earl of Lincoln and second duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1720–1794), politician LBT ID: DuNewca2 VIAF ID: 44572787 LOC ID: no92004508	B/BAP: 1720-04-16 DIED: 1794-02-22
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Educated at Eton and Clare College, Cambridge, he was a courtier and politician aligned with the Earl of Chatham who succeeded to the title in 1768.
REFERENCES TO Henry Fiennes Pelham- Clinton, second duke of Newcastle: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, [1827?] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 9 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward IX