PEERAGE OF STAFFORDSHIRE: 



HISTORICAL jf GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF NOBLE FAMILIES 



Who derive Titles from the Names of Places in this County. 



[FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES.] 



PELHAM, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME* 



HENRY PELHAM CLINTON, Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and 

 Earl of Lincoln, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nottingham, K. G. 

 born Jan. 31, 1785, succeeded his father Thomas, the late Duke, May 

 17, 1795; married July 18, 1807, Caroline Georgiana, daughter and 

 sole heiress of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. M. P. for the county of 

 Derby, (by his second wife the Dowager Lady Middleton, of Wol- 

 laton, co. Nottingham,) and has issue, Anna Maria, b. Aug. 6, 1808; 

 the Earl of Lincoln, b. May 22, 1811 ; a daughter, b. Sept. 1812. 



This family derives its name from a place called Clinton in the 

 Valley (now Glimpton), near Woodstock, and is descended from 

 William de Tankerville, Chamberlain of Normandy. He had issue 

 three sons, who accompanied William the Conqueror in his expedi- 

 tion : 1. Osbert ; 2. Renebald ; 3. William ; of which, the 2d had 

 by gift from William the Conqueror the Lordship of Clinton, in 

 Oxfordshire, and his descendants assumed that name ; from whom 

 descended John de Clinton, who in 1298 was created Baron Clin- 

 ton; he married Ida, daughter and co-heir of William de O ding- 

 sells, Baron of Maxtoke. 



Henry Clinton, the 9th Earl of Lincoln, and 21st in paternal 

 descent from Renebald de Clinton, became Duke of Newcastle by 

 intermarriage into the family of Pelham. He was born April 20, 

 1720 ; on February 6th, 1742, appointed Gentleman of his Majesty's 

 Bedchamber, and July 24th following, Lord Lieutenant and Custos 

 Rotulorum of the county of Cambridge. On December 25th, 1746, 

 his Grace was appointed Cofferer of his Majesty's Household; and 

 on April 1st, 1751, Auditor of the Exchequer. On March 13th, 



