Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle

Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, (8 April 1907 – 4 November 1988), styled Earl of Lincoln from 1928 to 1941, was a British peer and aviator.

Background Born at Whitehall Court, Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope was the oldest son of Francis Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and his wife, Olive Muriel Thompson, daughter of the Australian banker George Horatio Thompson. Pelham-Clinton-Hope was educated at Sandroyd School in Surrey, followed by Eton College and then Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1928, he (and not his father) inherited the family seat of Clumber House from his uncle Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne; and he succeeded his father as duke in 1941. The house was demolished in the late 1930s and plans to rebuild it on a smaller scale were never undertaken; the estate was sold to the National Trust in 1946. In 1938 he was transferred to become squadron leader of No. 616 (South Yorkshire) (Fighter) Squadron. Lady Kathleen Marie Gabrielle Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1 January 1951 – 1 May 2016), married in 1970 Edward Vernon Reynolds (divorced), and had a daughter, Roxanna, with Alan Dawson. In 2008, she was living at Ballinakil, Kilfinny, near Croom, County Limerick, Ireland.

After another divorce in 1959, on 23 October of the same year, Newcastle married Sally Ann Wemyss (d. 2015), former wife of Fikret Jemal and eldest daughter of Brigadier John Henry Anstice, of Kyrenia, Cyprus. A distant Australian cousin, Edward Fiennes-Clinton, then succeeded as Earl of Lincoln.

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