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). "Pelham, Dudley Worsley Anderson" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.

References

  1. ^ a b c cracroftspeerage.co.uk Earl of Yarborough Archived 16 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "No. 21006". The London Gazette. 7 August 1849. p. 2451.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Boston
1849–1851
With: Benjamin Bond Cabbell 		Succeeded by