Lady Catherine Pelham ( née Manners ; also spelt as Katherine ; 1700 or 1701 – 18 February 1780) was a British noble and the wife of the Prime Minister Henry Pelham . She used her position to broker positions within that administration and the following one.
9-494: Pelham was born in 1700 or 1701 and her parents were Catherine (née Russell) and John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland . She had a dowry that was either £10,000 or £30,000 and she was from an important aristocratic family. Her maternal uncle was Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford . She married Henry Pelham who was the secretary of war in Sir Robert Walpole 's government at St James, Westminster, London. November 1739
18-566: A candidate, Charles Townshend . It is a measure of Catherine's character that Newcastle could not decide who to please and who to disappoint. His solution was ingenious. There was one vacancy but Harwich returned two candidates. Newcastle persuaded the sitting candidate at Harwich, Thomas Sewell to move to Exeter so that he could then install both Catherine's and the King's candidate in Harwich. She died on 18 February 1780. Of her four daughters, Frances who
27-560: Was a Commissioner for the Union with Scotland in 1706. He was returned again as MP for Grantham at the 1708 British general election . At the 1710 British general election , he was returned as MP for both Leicestershire and Grantham. He succeeded his father as Duke of Rutland on 10 January 1711 and vacated his seats in the house of Commons, having not chosen which he would choose. He was Lord Lieutenant of Rutland from 1712 to 1715 and Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire from 1714 to 1721. In 1714, he
36-465: Was a bad month when she and Henry had two of their sons die within days of each other of what is now thought to be diphtheria. They had already lost a daughter and within months they lost another. Of their eight children only four daughters survived their childhood. Her skills were in correspondence and in manipulating the attainment and distribution of patronage. She would plan ahead to see which positions were likely to become vacant and she would plan who
45-437: Was born in 1728 and Mary who was born in 1739, died unmarried. Her daughter Catherine (1727–1760) became Catherine Pelham-Clinton, Countess of Clinton, when she married Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln in 1744. Henry, by this marriage, would in time become the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme . Her fourth daughter Grace (1735–1777) became Grace Watson, Baroness Sondes when she married Hon. Lewis Watson in 1752. In 1760, Lewis
54-460: Was created Baron Sondes . John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland KG (18 September 1676 – 22 February 1721), styled Lord Roos from 1679 to 1703 and Marquess of Granby from 1703 to 1711, was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 until 1711, when he succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Rutland . Manners
63-546: Was made a Knight of the Garter. Manners married, firstly, Catherine Russell, daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell and Lady Rachel Wriothesley , on 23 August 1693. They had nine children: Manners succeeded his father as Duke of Rutland on 10 January 1711. A few months later, his wife Catherine died. He married, secondly, Lucy Sherard, daughter of Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard , on 1 January 1713. Their children included: Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire This
72-427: Was the son of John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and his third wife Catherine Wriothesley Noel , daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden . Manners was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Derbyshire at the first general election of 1701. He was returned as MP for Leicestershire at the second general election of 1701. At the 1705 English general election he was returned as MP for Grantham . He
81-518: Was to receive the vacancy. Her unmarried daughters took positions and she became the Ranger of Greenwich Park in 1745. One of her achievements was to get John Roberts to be the candidate for the Harwich constituency . She had identified a vacancy and she had Prime Minister Newcastle's commitment that Roberts would be assigned the seat. However, in 1761, there was a new King and George III had his own mind for
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