Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (18 August 1920 – 25 December 1988), was an English lepidopterist and military officer as well as Duke of Newcastle for less than two months at the end of his life, inheriting the titles from a third cousin. He was thus briefly a member of the House of Lords.
The Duke of Newcastle | |
|---|---|
| Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne | |
| In office 4 November 1988 – 25 December 1988 | |
| Preceded by | Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edward Pelham-Clinton 18 August 1920 |
| Died | 25 December 1988 (aged 68) |
| Military service | |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | British Army: Royal Artillery |
| Awards | Mentioned in dispatches |
Education and career edit
Pelham-Clinton was the son of Guy Edward Pelham-Clinton, an army officer and a grandson of Lord Charles Clinton, who was a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Eton,[1] and Trinity College, Oxford, and during the Second World War served as an officer in the Royal Artillery, rising to the rank of captain[2] and being mentioned in dispatches. His younger brother, Alastair Pelham-Clinton, was a Royal Air Force Flying Officer and died in 1943 aged twenty.
Pelham-Clinton was interested in lepidopterology from a young age and specialized in entomology at Cambridge.[3] An expert in the subject, from 1960 to 1980 he was Deputy Keeper of the Royal Scottish Museum, in Edinburgh.[1] He acted as an associate editor of six volumes of the series The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, in which he wrote articles about Tineidae, Choreutidae, and Glyphipterigidae, and was working on Elachistidae at the time of his death.[3] A building in Dinton Pastures Country Park was named after him by the British Entomological and Natural History Society, of which he had been a member.[4]
Succession to peerages edit
Pelham-Clinton succeeded a third cousin in the earldom and dukedom in November 1988.[1] He died one month and 21 days later, aged 68, unmarried. As all other heirs male from the second duke's line had died, the dukedom became extinct, but the peerage of Earl of Lincoln was inherited by a distant kinsman in Australia. He left an estate valued for probate at £2,222,203, equivalent to £6,300,000 in 2021, and his stated usual abode was Furzeleigh House, Axminster.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b c "The new duke is Lord of the Flies". Staffordshire Sentinel. British Newspaper Archive. 10 November 1988. p. 1 cols 2–7. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
- ^ "Biography of Edward Charles Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle (1920-1988)". www.nottingham.ac.uk. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ a b Emmet, A. M. (1989). "Obituary E. C. Pelham-Clinton" (PDF). Nota Lepidopterologica. 12.
- ^ "FACILITIES". British Entomological & Natural History Society. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
- ^ "Newcastle the most noble 10th duke of Edward Charles Pelham Clinton... died 25 December 1988" in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1989, p. 5857