Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet (died 2 December 1624) was an English politician.

He was the younger son of Sir Nicholas Pelham and educated at Lewes Grammar School (1557), Queens’ College, Cambridge (1561) and studied law at the Inns of Court (1566). He succeeded his nephew Oliver Pelham in 1585.

He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lewes in 1584 and Sussex in 1586. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Sussex from c. 1583 and was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1589-90. He was a deputy-lieutenant of Sussex from 1601 and was created a baronet in 1611.

He married Mary, the daughter of Sir Thomas Walsingham of Chislehurst, Kent,with whom he had 1 son and 1 daughter.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "PELHAM, Thomas (d.1624), of Laughton; later of Halland Place, Suss.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 8 June 2013.


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