The 9th Duke of Newcastle OBE

Born at Whitehall Court, he 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 Eton College and then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He inherited the family's seat Clumber House from his uncle Henry Pelham-Clinton, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in preference to his father, whom he succeeded 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. Having succeeded as Duke of Newcastle in 1941, during the 1950s he moved the family seat to Boyton Manor in Wiltshire.

In 1936, while known by the courtesy title of Earl of Lincoln, the future Duke joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and served in the No. 609 (West Riding) (Fighter) Squadron. In 1938 he was transferred to become squadron leader of No. 616 (South Yorkshire) (Fighter) Squadron. He fought in the Second World War, and after its end in 1945 was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. From 1947, he commanded an air defence unit in Hampshire as a wing commander. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (1937–1948) and served the county as a Justice of the Peace (1933–1948).

In 1948 the Duke migrated to Southern Rhodesia, where his daughters were born.

Upon his death in 1988, lacking a son, the Duke was succeeded in his titles by Edward Pelham-Clinton, a descendant of a younger son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne.

Yachts Owned

Name	Rig Class	from	to	MMSI
Zanna	Motor Yacht	1947	1948