Dudley Pelham
Captain The Honourable Dudley Worsley Anderson-Pelham (20 April 1812 – 13 April 1851), was a British naval commander and Whig politician.
Background[]
Anderson-Pelham was a younger son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough, by his wife Henrietta Anne Maria Charlotte, daughter of the Honourable John Simpson and Henrietta Worsley. Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, was his elder brother.[1]
Career[]
Anderson-Pelham was a Captain in the Royal Navy.[1] He was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Boston at a by-election in 1849,[2] a seat he held until his early death in April 1851, aged 38.[3]
Family[]
Anderson-Pelham married Madalina, second daughter of Admiral Sir John Gordon Sinclair of Murkle, 8th Baronet, and sister and co-heiress of Sir Robert Charles Sinclair of Murkle, 9th Baronet, in 1839.[1]
See also[]
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). . . John Murray – via Wikisource.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c cracroftspeerage.co.uk Earl of Yarborough Archived 16 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 21006". The London Gazette. 7 August 1849. p. 2451.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Hon. Dudley Pelham
- 1812 births
- 1851 deaths
- Younger sons of earls
- Royal Navy officers
- UK MPs 1847–1852
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Whig (British political party) MPs