Charles Jervas, Portrait of Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (d.1776). Credit: Sotheby’s, Wikimedia Commons.
Henrietta Pelham-Holles (nee Godolphin) was, the wife of British Statesman and Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne. They married in 1717 and had a happy marriage, though they did not have children. The Duchess suffered from poor health and, later in life, preferred to remain away from politics; however, she frequently provided her husband with advice. She died in 1776.
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Reed Browning, ‘Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (1693–1768)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 23 Jan 2017].
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