Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Chichester
PC PC (Ire) FRS
Home Secretary
In office
30 July 1801  17 August 1803
Monarch George III
Prime Minister Henry Addington
Preceded by The Duke of Portland
Succeeded by Charles Philip Yorke
Personal details
Born (1756-04-28)28 April 1756
London, England
Died 4 July 1826(1826-07-04) (aged 70)
London, England
Nationality British
Political party Whig, later Tory
Spouse(s) Lady Mary Osborne
(1776–1862)
Alma mater Clare Hall, Cambridge

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC (Ire), FRS (28 April 1756 – 4 July 1826), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician. He notably held office as Home Secretary under Henry Addington from 1801 to 1803.

Background and education

Chichester was the eldest son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester, and his wife Anne, daughter of Frederick Meinhardt Frankland. The Right Reverend George Pelham was his younger brother. He was educated at Westminster and Clare College, Cambridge.[1]

Political career

Chichester was surveyor-general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham's 2nd ministry (1782), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 (when he was also appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland). He represented Carrick in the Irish House of Commons from 1783 to 1790 and Clogher from 1795 to 1797. In 1795 he was sworn of the Privy Council and became Irish chief secretary under Pitt's government, retiring in 1798.

In the latter year he sat briefly for Naas before transferring to Armagh Borough, a seat he held only until the next year. He was Home Secretary from July 1801 to August 1803 under Addington, who made him Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1803. Pelham went out of office in 1804, and in the next year succeeded to the earldom. He was joint-Postmaster-General from 1807 to 1823, and for the remaining three years of his life Postmaster-General.

Family

Mary Henrietta Juliana Pelham née Osborne (Richard Cosway)

Lord Chichester married Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana, daughter of Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds, in 1801. They had three sons and three daughters. Their second son the Hon. Frederick Thomas Pelham was a naval commander while their third son the Right Reverend John Thomas Pelham was Bishop of Norwich. Lord Chichester died in July 1826, aged 70, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, Henry. His daughter Lady Amelia Rose married Major General Sir Joshua Jebb, the Surveyor General of Prisons and designer of Pentonville Prison, the 'Model Prison', on 5 September 1854. The Countess of Chichester died in October 1862, aged 86. His daughter, Lady Lucy Anne Pelham, married Sir David Dundas.[2]

References

  1. "Pelham, the Hon. Thomas (PLHN773T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. http://www.thepeerage.com/p9460.htm

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Parliament of Great Britain
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Lord George Henry Lennox
Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson
Member of Parliament for Sussex
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Edward King
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Hon. Nathaniel Clements
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Thomas Burgh
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Peerage of Great Britain
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Thomas Pelham
Earl of Chichester
1805–1826
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Henry Pelham
Baron Pelham of Stanmer
(writ in acceleration)

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