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    John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle KG PC (9 January 1662 – 15 July 1711) was an English peer and politician. Holles was born in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire...
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    of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne [sic] was created once in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was conferred in 1756 on Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of...
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    Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne KG PC FRS (21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768) was an English...
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  • polymath and aristocrat John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662–1711), English peer Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768), British Whig...
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  • John Holles may refer to: John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (9 January 1662 – 15 July 1711) John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (May 1564 – 4 October...
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    1694 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4 June 1694 – 15 July 1711 vacant Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 28 October 1714...
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    heiress of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Cavendish, daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
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    mother and his maternal grandmother, who was the daughter of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church...
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    Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. She was the daughter of Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, and Henrietta Churchill, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough...
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    December 1716), who married John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 1 March 1690 and had issue. (This was the second creation of the dukedom in 1694 after...
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    death of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1662–1711) (his mother's brother) and took by Royal licence the additional surname 'Holles' in 1711...
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    year they sold it to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who had alterations made by John Vanbrugh. Thereafter it was called Newcastle House. The building...
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    fourth of six children of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and his wife, Frances Pierrepoint. On 1 March 1690, she married John Holles, Earl...
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  • from his mother's family and sold it in 1710 to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. Austen was Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1701 to 1702. He...
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    intrigues of Walpole made him equally unable to contend with the Pelhams (Henry Pelham and his elder brother Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, successive...
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  • title Earl of Clare in 1666. Holles was the son of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare and Elizabeth Vere, daughter of Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury...
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    Clumber Park (category Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Nottinghamshire)
    the hands of the Holles family. In 1707 permission was granted to John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to enclose 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of Sherwood Forest...
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  • 1676, she fell out with her younger brother and co-heir, John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who inherited their father's title. They had three...
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    commission. Marquess of Normanby from 1694; created Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 Earl of Wharton from 1706; created Marquess of Wharton in 1715...
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    one of those laid out around 1729 when the area north of Oxford Street was urbanised on a grid pattern. It was named after John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle...
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    Maid Marian here. John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1662–1711), politician and landowner, was born here. Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess...
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    Newcastle 1676 – 1691 Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1691 – 1711 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Lady Margaret Cavendish...
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    the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was headed by Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, serving in his second stint as prime minister. The most influential...
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    Her titles passed to her nephew, the 5th Earl of Sunderland. Sir Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme Boswell, James (1950). Boswell's...
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  • Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull 26 March 1689 – 17 September 1690 Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds 21 March 1691 – 11 August 1699 John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne...
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  • Holles' son, Francis Holles, 2nd Baron Holles, was born there in 1627. When the Holles barony became extinct, the estate passed to John Holles, 1st Duke...
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  • wife of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1701–1776) (Lady Harriet Godolphin), wife of Thomas...
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    Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, Lord President of the Council John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Lord Privy Seal Henry Boyle, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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    Wimpole Estate (category John Soane buildings)
    in the possession of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who left it to his daughter Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles upon his death the following...
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  • Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle as colonel, and two troops of horse each of 60 men. The Militia passed into virtual...
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