Creation: let.pat. 16 Dec 1706

Extinct: 17 Nov 1768

Family name: Pelham later Pelham-Holles

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Arms:

Azure three Pelicans Argent vulning themselves in the breast Gules

Crest:

A Peacock in his pride Argent

Supporters:

Dexter:  a Bay Horse;  Sinister:  a Bear proper, each collared Or and gorged with a Belt Argent buckled and studded Gold

Motto:

 Vicit Amor Patria

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Sir John Pelham, 3rd Bt. MP

1st son and heir of Sir Thomas Pelham, 3rd Bt. MP, of Laughton. co. Sussex, by his first wife Mary Wilbraham, 3rd dau. and cohrss. of Sir Roger Wilbraham

born

mar.

20 Jan 1647 Lady Lucy Sydney (bur. 19 Oct 1685), 2nd dau. of Robert [Sydney], 2nd Earl of Leicester, by his wife Lady Dorothy Percy, 1st dau. of Henry [Percy], 3rd Earl of Northumberland

children

1. Sir Thomas Pelham, 4th Bt. MP, later 1st Baron Pelham

2. Henry Pelham, of Stanmer, co. Sussex, Clerk of the Pells to the Exchequer (d. 1 Apr 1721), mar. Frances Bine, dau. and cohrss. of John Bine, of Rowdell, co. Sussex, and had issue:

1a. Thomas Pelham, of Stanmer, co. Sussex, Member of Parliament for Lewes 1727-37 (d. 1737), mar. Annetta Bridges (d. 9 Oct 1733), dau. of Thomas Bridges, of Constantinople, and had issue:

1b. Thomas Pelham, later 2nd Baron Pelham (of Stanmer) later 1st Earl of Chichester

1b. Harriet Pelham (b. 1 Aug 1730; d. 31 Aug 1768), mar. (1) 18 May 1748 Hon Richard Temple MP, of Romsey, co. Hampshire (d. 8 Aug 1749), 2nd son of Henry [Temple], 1st Viscount Palmerston, by his first wife Anne Houblon, sister and hrss. of Sir Richard Houblon, and dau. of Abraham Houblon, Governor of the Bank of England, and (2) 5 Feb 1753 George [Nevill], 1st Earl of Abergavenny, and had issue by both husbands

1a. Grace Pelham (dsp.), mar. as his first wife William Poole, Receiver General of the Stamp Office

2a. Frances Pelham (d. 30 Apr 1760), mar. Sir Francis Poole, 2nd Bt. MP, of Poole, co. Cheshire, and had issue

3a. Lucy Pelham (b. 15 Jan 1695/6; d. 25 May 1730), mar. bef. 1 Nov 1726 Talbot [Yelverton], 1st Earl of Sussex, and had issue

1. Elizabeth Pelham (d. 13 Jul 1723), mar. (1) 30 May 1678 Edward Montagu, brother of Charles [Montagu], 1st Earl of Halifax, and 1st son of Hon George Montagu (by his wife Elizabeth Irby, dau. of Sir Anthony Irby), 1st son of Henry [Montagu], 1st Earl of Manchester, by his third wife Margaret Crouch, dau. of John Crouch, of Cornbury, co. Hertford, and (2) Thomas Woodcock (dsp. 3 Jul 1732), and had issue by her first husband

2. Lucy Pelham (dsp. 8 Jul 1721), mar. 14 Oct 1679 Gervase [Pierrepont], 1st Baron Pierrepont

bur.

20 Jan 1702/3

suc. by

son

note

Member of Parliament for Hastings 1645-46 and for Sussex 1654-58 and 1660-98; suc. his father as 3rd Baronet 28 Aug 1654

Thomas [Pelham], 1st Baron Pelham

born

c. 1653

mar. (1)

26 Nov 1679 Elizabeth Jones(b. c. 1664; bur. spm. 13 Oct 1681), dau. and hrss. of Sir William Jones, of Ramsbury, co. Wiltshire, Attorney-General 1675-79, by his wife Elizabeth Alleyne, dau. of Edmund Alleyne, of Hatfield Peverell, co. Essex

children by first wife

1. Hon Lucy Pelham (bur. vp. 2 May 1689)

2. Hon Elizabeth Pelham (b. Oct 1681; d. 11 May 1711), mar. 3 Jul 1698 as his first wife Charles [Townshend], 2nd Viscount Townshend, and had issue

mar. (2)

21 May 1686 Lady Grace Holles (b. c. 1668; d. 13 Sep 1700), sister and cohrss. of John [Holles], 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 4th dau. of Gilbert [Holles], 3rd Earl of Clare, by his wife Grace Pierrepont (d. Jul 1702), 2nd dau. of Hon William Pierrepont MP, of Thoresby, co. Nottingham (by his wife Elizabeth Harris, dau. and cohrss. of Sir Thomas Harris, of Tong Castle, co. Salop), (2nd son of Robert [Pierrepont], 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

children by second wife

1. Hon Thomas Pelham later Pelham-Holles, later 2nd Baron Pelham later 1st Earl of Clare later 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne later 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne

2. Rt Hon Henry Pelham, Member of Parliament (Whig) for Seaford 1717-22 and for Sussex 1720-54, a Lord of the Treasury 1721, Secretary at War 1724, Paymaster of the Forces 1730, First Lord of the Treasury (Prime Minister) 1743-46 and 1746-54 (b. 1696; dspm. 6 Mar 1754), mar. 29 Oct 1726 Lady Catherine Manners (d. 18 Feb 1780), 1st dau. of John [Manners], 2nd Duke of Rutland, by his first wife Lady Catherine Russell, sister of Wriothesley [Russell], 2nd Duke of Bedford, and 2nd dau. of Hon William Russell, styled Lord Russell (by his wife Lady Rachel Wriothesley, 2nd dau. and eventual cohrss. of Thomas [Wriothesley], 4th Earl of Southampton), 1st son and heir ap. of William [Russell], 1st Duke of Bedford, and had issue:

1a. Catherine Pelham (b. 24 Jul 1727; d. 27 Jul 1760), mar. 3 Oct 1744 her cousin Henry [Clinton later Pelham-Clinton], 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and had issue

2a. Grace Pelham (b. 18 Aug 1728; d. 31 Jul 1777), mar. 12 Oct 1752 Lewis [Monson later Watson], 1st Baron Sondes, and had issue

3. Hon Frances Pelham (dsps. 27 Jun 1756), mar. 31 May 1715 Christopher [Wandesford], 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, and had issue

4. Hon Lucy Pelham (d. 20 Jul 1736), mar. 16 May 1717 Henry [Clinton], 7th Earl of Lincoln, and had issue

5. Hon Margaret Pelham (d. 23 Nov 1758), mar. 16 Mar 1726/7 as his second wife Sir John Shelley, 4th Bt., and had issue

died

23 Feb 1711/2

created

16 Dec 1706 Baron Pelham, of Laughton in the County of Sussex

suc. by

son by first wife

note

Member of Parliament (Whig) for East Grinstead1678-79, for Lewes 1679-1702, and for Sussex 1702-05; a Commissioner for Customs 1689-91; a Lord of the Treasury 1689/90-90/1, 1698-99 and 1701-02; suc. his father as 4th Baronet 20 Jan 1702/3; Vice-Admiral of Sussex 1705

Thomas [Pelham later Pelham-Holles], 2nd Baron Pelham later 1st Earl of Clare later 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne later 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG PC

created

19 Oct 1714 Viscount Haughton and Earl of Clare, with remainder failing his issue male to his younger brother Hon Henry Pelham

11 Aug 1715 Marquess of Clare and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a like special remainder

17 Nov 1756 Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, with a special remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to Henry Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, and the heirs male of his body, by Catherine, his wife, niece of the grantee

4 May 1762 Baron Pelham, of Stanmer in the County of Sussex, with a special remainder in favour of his cousin and heir male

The Barony of Pelham was held by the 1st Earl of Clare (later 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) until his death on 17 Nov 1768 when all his titles became extinct except for the Dukedom of Newcastle-under-Lyne and the 1762 Barony of Pelham.

 First written 11 Feb 2003

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