The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-28 00:00:00

Funeral of the Duke of Newcastle.

The remains of this lamented nobleman was in
terred in the family mausoleum at Markham Clinton
Notts, yesterday. The esteem in which the late
Duke was held by all classes, more especially by his
numerous tenantry, was shown by the attendance
at the ceremony of yesterday, which exceeded
anything that has been witnessed of late years on
similar occasions. The park at Clamber was ap.
pointed for the mustering place of the tenantry,
and they began to assemble about nine o'clock.
About 500 horsemen were in attendance, all wearing
hatbands. The body lay in state in the anteroom
of the library, in a mahogany coffin, which enclosed
a lead shell and a coffin of cedar, the latter laJing
made out of a cedar that formerly grew in the pleas
sure grounds. At the head of the coffin was a ducal
coronet. The coffin plate bore the following inscrip.
tion

Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton,
Duke of Newcastle,
Earl of Lincoln,
Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Notts,
Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon,
Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GIL-ter,
One of her Majesty's Most Hon, Privy Council,

D. C,L.,
Born, May 22, 1811,
Died, October 18, 1864.

The funeral procession was composed as follows :

A mourning coach drawn by two horses, conveying
Mr Gilbert, the late Duke's house steward ; Mr
Scott, the farm bailiff; the agent's clerk ; and Mr
Latham. The late Duke's carriage, closed, drawn
by a pair of horses, coachmen and footmen.

Tenantry on horseback, headed by the head
keepers. The Worksop forester. Tenants in cart is
ages—Messrs C. S. Burnaby, T. F. A. Burnaby, Joe.
Champion, W. E. Watson, John Whall, H. Cottam,
E. Hodgkinson, W. Wilkinson, J. Garside.
The Forester, on horseback, heading a procession
of 530 tenantry on horseback, all wearing mourning.
Mourning coaches conveying the chaplain of the late
duke and several of the netchbouring clergymen ;
the solicitor to his Grace sod his medical attendants;
his agents and the managers of his estates. Then
came the pail-bearers, eight in number, selected
from the tenantry whose families have been for cen-
turies connected with the estate. Then followed the
hearse drawn by six horses, the trappings display-
ing the escutcheon of the family. Eight under-bears
ers walked alongside, selected from cottage tenants.
The first mourning coach following the hearse cons
tained the Earl of Lincoln (now Duke of News
castle), Lords Artivir and Albert Pelham Clinton,
sons of the late Duke, and his Grace the Duke of
Hamilton. In the next coach were Sir Cornwallis
Ricketts, Bart,, and Captain D'Eyncourt, R N.,
brothers-in•law of the late Duke ; Sir Rodney
Mundy, and the Lord Foley, cousins of the late
Duke. The next contained Lord de Tabley, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, executor of the Duke,and Lord Harris.
The rest of the procession was composed of the sera
vents of the late Duke, and a vast number of te-
nantry and labourers. From Clumber to Markham
Clinton is about eight miles, and the road was
lined with the country people, who were not de-
terred by the excessively unpleasant day from
attend.og to pay the last tribute of respect to one
whose memory will long live in their hearts as a
good landlord, and an affectionate amiable nobles
man. The procession started from Clumber at a
quarter past 12, and reached Markham Clinton at
3. The funeral service was then performed and the
body was lowered into the vault. It may be stated
thaNs, this church was built specially by the father
of the late Duke, who died in 1852, as a burying
place for the family. The church is a small and
plain building, and underneath there more than 30
vaults constructed for the reception of the bodies
of the Clinton family. The ceremony was over at
a quarter past 3. and the vast procession separated.
We may state that the whole of the children of the
late Duke were present, with the exception of Lord
Edward Clinton, who is in Canada with the Kill
Brigade, and L.idy Susan Vane Tempest.