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About Thomas Pelham, MP, 2nd Baronet
- 'Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bt.
- 'M, #27061, b. 22 September 1597, d. circa August 1654
- Last Edited=13 Feb 2011
- 'Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bt. was baptised on 22 September 1597.3 He was the son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Bt. and Mary Walsingham.1,2 He married, secondly, Judith Honeywood, daughter of Sir Robert Honeywood.3 He married, firstly, Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir Roger Wilbraham.3 He married, thirdly, Margaret Vane, daughter of Sir Henry Vane, on 3 June 1640 at Lambeth, London, England.3 He died circa August 1654.1 He was buried on 28 August 1654.3
- ' Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bt. held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for East Grinstead from 1621 to 1622.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex from 1624 to 1625.3 He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Pelham, of Laughton, co. Sussex [E., 1611] on 2 December 1624.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex between 1640 and 1648.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Sussex in 1654.3
- 'Children of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bt. and Mary Wilbraham
- 1.Sir John Pelham, 3rd Bt.+2 d. c Jan 1702/3
- 2.Judith Pelham+4
- 'Children of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Bt. and Margaret Vane
- 1.Philadelphia Pelham+2 d. 13 Aug 1685
- 2.Elizabeth Pelham2
- 3.Sir Nicholas Pelham+2 b. 1650, d. 1739
- Citations
- 1.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 9. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
- 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003). Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
- 3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 771.
- 4.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume I, page 29.
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p2707.htm#i27061
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- 'PELHAM, Thomas (1597-1654), of Laughton and Halland, East Hoathley, Suss.
- 'bap. 22 Sept. 1597, o.s. of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st bt.†, of Halland and Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Walsingham I* of Scadbury, Chislehurst, Kent.2 educ. Emmanuel, Camb. 1615; G. Inn 1615.3 m. (1) settlement 23 June 1615, with £5,000, Mary (bur. 7 Mar. 1635), da. and coh. of Sir Roger Wilbraham* of Nantwich, Cheshire, 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da. (2 d.v.p.); (2) 7 Dec. 1637, Judith (bur. 21 Oct. 1638), da. of Sir Robert Honywood of Pett, Charing, Kent, wid. of John Shurley of Lewes, Suss., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 3 June 1640, with £2,500, Margaret, da. of Sir Henry Vane* of Fairlawn, Kent, 5s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 2 Dec. 1624. bur. 28 Aug. 1654.4 sig. Thomas Pelham.
- Offices Held
- J.p. Suss. 1622-d.;5 commr. subsidy, Suss. 1624, 1626, 1641-2,6 oyer and terminer, Home circ. 1624-42, Suss. 1627, 1644, sewers, Kent and Suss. 1625-9, 1640, 1645, Suss. 1625, 1630-1, 1637-41, 1653,7 Forced Loan, Suss. 1626-7,8 martial law 1627;9 dep. lt. Suss. 1627-at least 1645;10 commr. charitable uses, Suss. 1629-38,11 maltsters 1636,12 assessment 1643-52, sequestration 1643, levying money 1643, defence 1643, 1644, gaol delivery 1644, New Model Ordinance 1645, militia 1648.13
- Biography
- 'The Pelhams, one of the most prominent families in East Sussex, were descended from the illegitimate son of John Pelham, who first represented the county in 1399 and rose to become treasurer under Henry IV.14 Based at Laughton, six miles north-east of Lewes, they were among the wealthier Wealden landowners directly involved in the iron industry in the sixteenth century.15 They were also strong supporters of the Reformation, with the head of the family in exile at Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary. Pelham’s father, who sat for Sussex in 1586, was one of the wealthiest men in the county, purchasing the castle, lordship and rape of Hastings from the 3rd earl of Huntingdon in 1591, and one of the earliest baronetcies in 1611. On Pelham’s first marriage in 1615 he received a third of his father’s estate, and was sufficiently prosperous to purchase a manor in Burwash, Sussex, in 1619.16
- 'Pelham entered Parliament for East Grinstead in 1621. His paternal grandmother had been the aunt of Thomas Sackville†, 1st earl of Dorset, and it is possible that his father persuaded the 3rd earl, the dominant electoral patron in the borough, to nominate Pelham in exchange for supporting for Dorset’s steward, Richard Amherst*, at Lewes.17 Returned for the county in 1624, and re-elected the following year, having succeeded to his father’s estate and title, Pelham left no trace in the surviving parliamentary records of this period. It was presumably his own choice not to sit in the next two parliaments.
- 'Pelham’s estate, concentrated largely in the Pevensey and Hastings rapes of east Sussex, was sufficiently large for him to be deemed capable of lending £100 towards the Privy Seal loan of late 1625, although his assessment was reduced to £60 the following March.18 In early 1627 he was appointed to the lieutenancy, and a year later granted a reversion of the manor of Preston in Sussex, together with his cousin Anthony Stapley*. He joined with Stapley in the foundation of a puritan lectureship in Lewes at about this time, and in 1631 he compounded for knighthood at £200.19
- 'Pelham played a vital role in the administration of East Sussex in the 1630s.20 In addition he was increasingly prosperous, enabling him to invest £12,000 in further Sussex property in 1634. An innovative livestock farmer, he enjoyed a landed income of up to £2,700 annually. His profits from the iron industry, however, could be as much as £4,000 a year, and he was said to be ‘none of the most scrupulous’ where money was concerned.21 An enthusiast for the traditional country pursuits, such as falconry, hunting and litigation, he delighted in the exchange of hospitality with friends and relatives. He was also a regular visitor to London, whence he was careful to bring back presents for his growing family, for whom he eventually took a house in the Strand. His annual expenditure accordingly rose during the decade from about £2,000 to over £4,000.22
- 'Despite increasing ill health, he was returned for the county at both elections in 1640. A moderate supporter of Parliament in the Civil War, he withdrew from county administration after the king’s death. He was, nevertheless, elected to the first Protectorate Parliament, together with his eldest son, John, but died before it met, and was buried at Laughton on 28 Aug. 1654. Despite three happy marriages and a wide circle of friends and interests, he complained in his will that he had experienced ‘nothing but vanity and vexation, and for minutes of peace and prosperity enjoyed have had months of troubles and disquietude’. He asked to be buried ‘without pomp, feast or heralds, having observed the abuse of them at such times’. His eldest son, John Pelham, had already sat for Hastings in the Long Parliament and represented the county in nine parliaments between 1654 and 1698.23
- Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
- Author: Alan Davidson
- Notes
- 1. Did not sit after Pride’s Purge, 6 Dec. 1648.
- 2.CB, i. 8-9.
- 3.Al. Cant.; GI Admiss.
- 4.CB, i. 9; Suss. Gens.: Lewes Cent. comp. J. Comber, 208; Add. 5697, f. 265; 33188, ff. 98-125; Bodl. North c.4, f. 40; C. Dalton, Hist. of Wrays of Glentworth, ii. 114.
- 5. C231/4, f. 145; CUL, Dd. viii. 1.
- 6. C212/22/23; E179/191/377a; SR, v. 66, 156.
- 7. C181/3, ff. 111, 166v, 165v, 216; 181/4, ff. 18, 37v, 73v; 181/5, ff. 69, 167, 206, 222, 235, 253; 181/6, f. 23.
- 8. T. Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 144; C193/12/2, f. 59.
- 9.CSP Dom. 1627-8, p. 461.
- 10. SP16/70/89; Add. 33058, f. 71.
- 11. C192/1, unfol.
- 12. PC2/46, f. 273.
- 13.A. and O. i. 94, 116, 150, 235, 451, 540, 624, 640, 976,1094, 1242; ii. 44, 479, 676; C181/5, f. 235.
- 14.HP Commons, 1386-1421, iv. 40.
- 15. H. Cleere and D. Crossley, Iron Industry of the Weald, 149.
- 16.VCH Suss. ix. 3; E. Pelham and D. McLean, Some Early Pelhams, 267; PROB 11/145, f. 217v; CB, i. 8.
- 17.Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. liii), 20-1.
- 18. Pelham and McLean, 267; A. Fletcher, County Community in Peace and War, 13; APC, 1625-6, p. 371.
- 19.CSP Dom. 1628-9, p. 11; Add. 33145, f. 28v; E401/2450, unfol.
- 20. Fletcher. 241.
- 21. Ibid. 14, 20, 53; J. Cornwall, ‘Farming in Suss. 1560-1640’, Suss. Arch. Colls. xcii. 73, 77, 82; HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, v. 442.
- 22. Fletcher, 28-30, 34, 43-4, 54; Add. 33145, f. 78v; W. Raynes, ‘Letter of Congratulation’, Suss. Arch. Colls. ii. 100.
- 23. Fletcher, 41, 222, 282; M.F. Keeler, Long Parl. 301-2, PROB 11/241, f. 387; HP Commons, 1660-90, iii. 218-19.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/pe...
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- '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...
- 'Son of Thomas Pelham d. 1624. Thomas Pelham d. August 28, 1654, he had three wives, Unknown wife, children: John Sir Pelham, 3rd Baronet (eldest son) d. January 26, 1703, Philadelphia Pelham d. August 13, 1685. By his 3rd wife he had Nicholas Pelham.
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- . . . . . 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, Thomas, created duke of Newcaftle; and Henry, a celebrated ftatefman, born 1696, "who being," . . . . . . He died of a violent fever, which in five days put a period to his life, March 6, 1754, aged 60. . . . .
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Thomas Pelham, MP, 2nd Baronet's Timeline
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September 22, 1597
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Halland, Sussex, UK
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1602
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1628
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Halland, East Hoathly, Sussex, England
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1649
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Catfield, Norfolk, England
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August 28, 1654
Age 56
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England, United Kingdom
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August 28, 1654
Age 56
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Laughton, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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1660
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