Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln

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Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln (born February 23, 1913 in Melbourne , † July 7, 2001 ) was an Australian worker and an English peer since 1988 .

He was the older son of Edward Henry Fiennes-Clinton (1886-1916) and Edith Annie Guest. His father was a sailor in the British Merchant Navy, emigrated to Australia in 1912, returned to Europe as an infantry soldier with the Australian Imperial Force during World War I and died there on August 17, 1916.

He was educated at Hale School, an independent Anglican boarding school in Perth . He did an apprenticeship in a railway operations workshop and worked in various jobs as a boiler maker, assistant welder, butcher and assistant machine operator at the Super Pit gold mine in Kalgoorlie .

When his 11th cousin Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle died on December 25, 1988 with no descendants, he inherited his title Earl of Lincoln , to which he was entitled as a descendant of Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln . The Duke of Newcastle title expired. The unexpected succession attracted a lot of media attention. The inheritance did not include any movable property, only the title of nobility and the associated right to a seat in the House of Lords .

He then traveled to England. In London he attended the College of Arms and was instructed by Lord Deedes in his duties in the House of Lords. He expressed the intention to take his seat on the side of the Tories . Although he began the formal legal process to have his title recognized and take his seat in the House of Lords, those processes were never completed. With the House of Lords Act 1999 , the hereditary right to a seat in parliament was abolished.

In 1992 he published his autobiography Memoirs of an Embryo Earl .

Marriages and offspring

In 1940 he married Leila Ruth Millen († 1947); he has two children with her:

  • Patricia Ruth Fiennes-Clinton (* 1941)
  • Edward Gordon Fiennes-Clinton (1943-1999)

After the death of his first wife in 1953 he married the also widowed Linda Alice O'Brien, née Creed. He has no children with her.

Since his son Edward had already died on his death in 2001, his son Robert inherited the earl title.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edward Henry Fiennes-Clinton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 21, 2015.

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predecessor Office successor
Edward Pelham-Clinton Earl of Lincoln
1988-2001 		Robert Fiennes-Clinton
personal data
SURNAME Fiennes-Clinton, Edward, 18th Earl of Lincoln
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiennes-Clinton, Edward Horace, 18th Earl of Lincoln
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian engineer and English peer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2001