Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton (23 June 1840 – 18 June 1870) was an English

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 aristocrat and Liberal Party

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 politician. A Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for three years, he was notorious for involvement in the homosexual scandal and trial of Boulton and Park

Boulton and Park

Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were two Victorian transvestites and suspected homosexuals who appeared as defendants in a celebrated trial in London in 1871, charged "with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence"...

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He was the son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle and Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Hamilton. He went to Eton College

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 and became a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

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, serving in the Baltic from 1854 to 1856 and in India during the Mutiny. He was elected as an MP for Newark

Newark (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the general election in July 1865

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, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1868 general election

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. He was declared bankrupt on 12 November 1868, with debts and liabilities reported to total £70,000.

In 1870 he was living with Ernest Boulton, who had been dressed as a girl by his mother from an early age and was known to his friends as "Stella". Boulton and Frederick William Park often appeared in public in female dress: they were arrested and charged "with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence" with Pelham-Clinton and others. Pelham-Clinton died on 18 June, the day after receiving his subpoena for the trial, ostensibly of scarlet fever but more probably a suicide.
Boulton and Park were acquitted.

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