Sir Nicholas Pelham

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Sir Nicholas Pelham

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Birthplace: Catfield, Norfolk, England
Death: November 1739 (85-94)
England, United Kingdom
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Son of Thomas Pelham, MP, 2nd Baronet and Margaret Pelham
Husband of Jane Pelham
Father of Thomas Pelham; Margaret Ashburnham; Henry Pelham; John Pelham and Richard Pelham
Brother of Philadelphia Howard
Half brother of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet and Judith Monson, Lady Monson

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About Sir Nicholas Pelham

  • 'A biographical peerage of the empire of Great Britain: in which ..., Volume 1 By Sir Egerton Brydges
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=svJsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA364&lpg=PA364&dq...
  • Pg.365
  • . . . . . He died 1624, and was fucceeded by his fon, fir Thomas, who reprefented Suffex, in the reigns of James I. and Charles I. and feems to have favoured the parliament fide, at leaft in the outfet of the troubles; but living retired during Cromwell's ufurpation, was buried with his anceftors, at Laughton, Aug. 28, 1654. ('His younger fon, by his third wife, fir Nicholas, was anceftor of the Pelhams of Crowburft, in Suffex.') His eldeft fon, fir John Pelham, was elected member of parliament for Suffex, 1660, and continued to reprefent that county, during the remainder of the reign of Charles II. He died at the age of eighty, at his feat at Halland, in the parifh of Eaft-Hothley and Laughton, Jan. 26, 1703. His wife was a lady of high rank, Lucy, fecond daughter of Robert Sydney, fecond earl of Leicefter. His youger fon, Henry, clerk of the Pells, was grandfather of the late earl of Chichefter, But fir Thomas, the eldeft fon, fat in parliament for Lewe and and for Suffex, from the reign of Charles II. till 1706, in which time he was a commiffioner of the cuftoms, and, in 1689, a lord of the Treafury; and having married to his fecond wife, Lady Grace, fifter to John Holles, duke of Newcaftle, was, on Dec. 29, 1706, created lord Pelham. He died Feb. 23, 1712, leaving, by his fecond wife, two fons, . . . .
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1649
Catfield, Norfolk, England
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Catfield, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
1739
November 1739
Age 90
England, United Kingdom
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