The Dukedom of Kingston-upon-Hull was created in 1715 and became extinct in 1773. Other titles associated with the Dukedom, all of which became extinct along with it, included: Marquess of Dorchester (created 1706), Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (1628), Viscount Newark (1628) and Baron Pierrepont (1627). The Dukedom was in the Peerage of Great Britain; all other titles were in the Peerage of England.
Her son Evelyn succeeded to the Bath estate, and to the dukedom on the death of his grandfather in 1726 (the dukedom was created in 1715).
Duke Evelyn was also favourable: for instance in 1739 he signed the lease with John Wood which led to the building of the North and South Parades.
By the Duke's agreement with John Wood, 1739, Marchant was to take down the closet at the north-west corner, which confined the passage from Leer Land to the Abbey Orchard (i.e.
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC (21 July 1693–17 November 1768) was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century.
In 1731, at Houghton Hall, Sir Robert Walpole's country house in Norfolk, the Duke of Newcastle, with the Duke of Lorraine (afterward Emperor of Germany), was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master, Lord Lovell, at an Occasional Lodge.
The Duke was industrious and energetic, and to his credit be it said that the statesman who almost monopolised the patronage of office for half a century twice refused a pension, and finally left office £300,000 poorer than he entered it.
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