Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
The Right Honourable The Earl of Chichester PC PC (Ire) FRS | |
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| 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.
Contents
1 Background and education
2 Political career
3 Family
4 References
5 External links
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 four sons and six 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
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^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p9460.htm
- http://thepeerage.com/p2891.htm#i28910
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Chichester
Parliament of Great Britain | ||
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| Preceded by Lord George Henry Lennox Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson | Member of Parliament for Sussex 1780–1801 With: Lord George Henry Lennox 1780–1790 Charles Lennox 1790–1801 | Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom |
Parliament of Ireland | ||
| Preceded by Robert Tighe Edward King | Member of Parliament for Carrick 1783–1790 With: George Sandford 1783 Edward King 1783–1790 | Succeeded by Edward King Hon. Nathaniel Clements |
| Preceded by Sackville Hamilton Richard Townsend Herbert | Member of Parliament for Clogher 1795–1798 With: Richard Townsend Herbert | Succeeded by Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt Thomas Burgh |
| Preceded by Robert Hobart Sackville Hamilton | Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough 1798–1799 With: Patrick Duigenan | Succeeded by Patrick Duigenan Gerard Lake |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain | Member of Parliament for Sussex 1801 With: Charles Lennox | Succeeded by Charles Lennox John 'Mad Jack' Fuller |
| Military offices | ||
| Preceded by Charles Frederick | Surveyor-General of the Ordnance 1782–1783 | Succeeded by John Courtenay |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by William Windham | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1783–1784 | Succeeded by Thomas Orde |
| Preceded by Viscount Milton | Chief Secretary for Ireland 1795–1798 | Succeeded by Viscount Castlereagh |
| Preceded by The Lord Glentworth | Secretary of State, Ireland 1796–1797 | Succeeded by Viscount Castlereagh |
| Preceded by The Duke of Portland | Home Secretary 1801–1803 | Succeeded by Charles Philip Yorke |
| Preceded by The Lord Hobart | Leader of the House of Lords 1801–1803 | Succeeded by The Lord Hawkesbury |
| Preceded by The Earl of Liverpool | Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1803–1804 | Succeeded by The Lord Mulgrave |
| Preceded by The Earl of Aylesford | Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard 1804 | Succeeded by The Earl of Macclesfield |
| Preceded by The Earl of Carysfort The Earl of Buckinghamshire | Postmaster-General 1807–1826 With: The Earl of Sandwich 1807–1814 The Earl of Clancarty 1814–1816 The Marquess of Salisbury 1816–1823 | Succeeded by The Lord Frederick Montagu |
Peerage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Pelham | Earl of Chichester 1805–1826 | Succeeded by Henry Pelham |
Baron Pelham of Stanmer (writ in acceleration) 1801–1826 | ||
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