CLARE 251 in her 65th year, 24 Dec. 17 16, and was bur. with her ancestors 5 Jan. 1 7 16/7, at Bolsover, co. Derby. Will dat. 16 Oct. 171 5, pr. 6 June 1717-0 EARLDOM. Thomas (Pelham-Holles), Baron Pelham of -,r Laughton, s. and h. of Thomas, ist Baron Pelham VT'7TJ_ . ' '^' of Laughton [so a: 1706], by his 2nd wife, Grace, MARDTIFSSATF lister of John (Holles), Dure of Newcastle, Mar- ' QUESS OF Clare, Earl of Clare, and Baron Hough- n. 1715 ton abovenamed, b. i July 1693, sue. to his father's to peerage in 1712, about which time, having inherited 1768. the estates of the family of Holles on the death (171 1) of his uncle, the Duke of Newcastle above- named, he assumed the additional name of Ho//es. On 19 Oct. 17 14, he was cr. VISCOUNT HAUGHTON, co. Nottingham, and EARL OF CLAREjC") with rem., failing his issue male, to his br. Henry Pelham in tail male; on 11 Aug. I7i5"he was cr. MARQUESS OF CLARE and DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, with a like spec. rem. On 17 Nov. 1756 he was cr. DUKE OF NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE, with rem., failing his issue male, to Henry (Clinton), Earl of Lincoln, husband of Catherine, ist da. and coh. of his said br., Henry Pelham. Finally, on 4 May 1 762, he was cr. BARON PELHAM OF STANMER, Sussex, with rem., failing his issue male, to his kinsman Thomas Pelham. He ^. s.p., 17 Nov. 1768, when all his honours, save these two last creations became extinct, the Dukedom of Newcastle (1756) devolving on the family of Clinton (Earls of Lincoln), and the Barony of Pelham (1762) on the family of Pelham. See under those dignities. See fuller account under " Newcastle-under-Lyne," Dukedom of, cr. 1756. CLARE [Ireland] VISCOUNTCY [L] i . Daniel O'Brien, of Moyarta and Carrigaholt, , ,^^ CO. Clare, 3rd and yst. s. of Connor (O'Brien), 2nd Earl of Thomond [I.], by his 2nd wife, Ownye, da. of Turlogh Mac-i-Brien-Ara, was Capt. of a regt. in the time of Queen Elizabeth, was knighted at Leixlip, i July 1604; M. P. for CO. Clare 16 13- 14/5, and 1634-35. He took part in the con- federation of Kilkenny. He did great service to the King during the of Oxford, whose da. and h. m. William (Bentinck), 2nd Duke of Portland, conveying Welbeck Abbey and the other estates to the family of Bentinck. The estates of the Holles family were devised by the Duke, in 1707, to his nephew, Thomas Pelham, cr. Earl of Clare, CJc, and finally Duke of Newcastle. (*) Leaving " the bulk of her estate, about ;f 8,000 p.a., to her niece, the Lady Frances Spencer, daughter to the Earl of Sunderland, but in spite of her will the estates passed to her daughter." V.G. (^) This was one of the Coronation peerages of George I, for a list of which see vol. ii, Appendix F.
