The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-02-23
OBITUARY..


THE SIXTH DUKE OF NEWCASTLE
The Atlantic cable yesterday announced the death
OF Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham Clinton, sixth
Duke of Newcastle. He was the of the Duke who
accompanied the Prince of Wales his visit to this
country. The Duke just dead was born on the 18th
OF January 1884. and succeeded his father sixth
Duke on the 18th of October 1864. He educated
at Eton. and from thence transferred to Oxford
His Grace to the turf began age which
indicated his passion for it, in 1856 he had horses
in conjunction with Mr.. Psrr. who trained them at
Benhams. near Vantage; and among them were H.
difference. very bad animal. but not badly named;
Nero, platter. and Gaspard, who dead heat for
the Cesarewitch with Sir W. Booths Artless. his
chance being much deteriorated by his having
been sent to Paris the previous week to run for
the Grand Prix dc l'Empereur. His Grace had
likewise an interest for a short time in Fisher
man. as a two-y ear-old. and likewise when he ran
for the Lincoln Handicap a three and was
beaten by Tame Deer. Lupus was another animal
that won him few races; but. on the whole. his
career in the Vantage stable very Improbable.
After this time family induced the Earl of
Lincoln-for he had not then succeeded to the duke
dom-to give up keeping horses. and for some little
time he merely spectatorat His next ven
ture with Aurelian in the Findon sta
BILE. but the change from Mr.. Parr to WILL
lam Goater brought scarcely any altera-
ton of luck. In fact, such unucky
career would have caused many a beginner with less
pluck to give over. But the Duke OF Newcastle
not the person to retire from arena whore dstnc
tons to DO gained without making every effort to
attain chem; and as Mat Dawson happened TO be at
liberty through resgning the service OF Mr.. Merry,
His Grace engaged him. The first victory of the
trainer with julius, at Winchester.
The Dukes passion led to most disastrous
results. In 1869 the aristocratic neighbor-
hood OF Carlton Gardens witnessed unusual
The stone walls of of the largest man
sons on Carlton House terrace were defaced by the
vulgar posters OF an auctioneer. and its massive
doors were thrown open not at the bidding of its
master, but through the memorable mandate of the
law and not to the customary hgh-bred visitors of
that refined locality, but to mixed and curious
crowd. embracing the rich and the poor the spec
ulator and the idler. the swell and the snob. Up
and down the broad stone steps and magnificent
staircases passed and repassed groups of men and
women unusual to the scene"--brokers, boarding
house keepers stout landladies. second hand dealers
hook nosed, sharp sporting men and any number of
female Toodleses-bent upon securing bargains and
eager to bid for anything, from a court suit to
coal scutte, that might be found handy to have in
the house In the spacious rooms, which the rough
hands of the auction porters were able to
tirely dvest OF their natural air OF refinement and
elegance statesmen peers and fashionabes of both
sexes were hustled and elbowed by the common
rabble, and pressed and prosecuted to their evident
| disgust by persistent commission men with dirty
shirts, dirter hands and large diamond pins. Every
where. outside the mansion and inside from garrett
| to cellar from dining room to stable, told
the tale of final ruin of its owner. the young
Duke OF Newcastle The story of how the young
Duke lost his fortune is worth telling. if
recapitulaton is necessary In 1861, when
| Earl of Lincoln, he married Henrietta Adela Hope,
the daughter Of a wealthy banker. and veiy
beautiful girl The Earl was then thirty zone years
of age, but he had already given evidence of the evil
passion that occasioned his disaster He that
residence on the Continent desirable and create an
obstacle to his inclination for settled life. These
1 facts were communicated to Mr.. Hope. whose
own domestic life had not been without it's trials.
and he at once sought an interview with the
Earl. How much do you owe i'll all ?? inquired the
banker. 'Forty-fve thousand pounds will cover my
debts.' the reply Of the Earl lis that all -
exclaimed Mr.. Hope in some surprise; "thcn it is
! easily arranged" and he wrote check for the
amount. Prudent fathers may now maintain that
the bestowal of this sum upon young spendthrift
not half censurable as the risking daughters
| future happiness by union with one who had
| thus early evinced his incapacity to resist the
| aiurements OF those arch tempters. gambling and
debt but it must be remembered that the Earl had
rich dukedom at his back, and that divided house
| was not the most desirable home for young and
| beautiful daughter Few moralizing parents would
have hesitated under such circumstances. The ars-
tocratic lovers weddad and neither the breath
| of envy the yet more poisonous tongue of tho
scfrghteous Pharisee has venured to hint that they
have not been united and aectionxte couple. In 1854
the earl succeeded TO the dukedom. his heir the pres
ent Earl of Lincoln having been born the year.
Married life and the allurements Of home frightened
by infancy were not sufficient to cure the Duke OF
his passion for the excitement OF the TURF As soon
he found himself master Of the noble fortune and
vast estates attached to the dukedom he launched
| out into the most extravasant speculatons in
the lecches and blacklegs who have of late years
| dsgraced the English turf. The result was
| to fOresce In nve years the young Duke
dissipated princely fortune and literally made
| himself pauper. 1t incredible that estates
| and moneys that brought him in f75000 year
should soon have melted away. but so 1t and
for several the man who, in 1854, found him.
! self master of his magnificent income, with a
sion in town and of the very finest country
houses in all England, was forced TO 1.-Two on his
wifes settlement and the bounty of his rich
notherin-law Such is the brief story Of the
that closed with the auction sale Of the contents
of the "Ducal mansion on Carlton House terrace.
OF the Duke of Newcastle personally IL is rather diff
cult to speak his frank and atable manners, his
extreme kindness of heart and the courage with
the popularity which his father. who literally
rifced his life TO his country enjoyed among all
classes OF his countrymen. The Duke did embark
the stormy OF politics, although he
sat in the House of Commons for short
time for Newark. But those occasions
which he had to appear in public his addresses
were marked by vigor and grasp of thought
which plainly showed the stock from whence he
sprung: and we have less authority than that
OF Mr.. Gladstone, who his father executor, that
il His had applied himself To political life the
distinctions which his father gained quite
within his reach. Among other Offices which the
late Duke held that OF Grand Master of the
Free Masons of Nottingham and in that capacity,
well the landlord of extensive and prosperous
tcnantry his rule mild and patcrnal as that
which might have been expected from his character
and he entirely ignored the famous doctrine of his
grandfather relative 10 "a man having the right to do
as he likes with his own" for the freedom of cleo
Nottnghanshire, as much as the most ardent lover
of civil and religious liberty could have desired
REV. Dir. BENJAMIN l. HAIGHT.
Rev. DR.. BENJAMIN l. Haght. who for many