Pelham

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Pelham may refer to:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Surname 1.2 First name 2 Places 3 Other uses

[edit] People

[edit] Surname

• British Whig politicians: Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653-1712) and his sons, both Prime Ministers of Great Britain: Henry Pelham (1694-1754) and his brother Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768)
• American artistic family: artist Peter Pelham (c.1695-1751) and his sons: composer Peter Pelham (1721-1805) and artist Henry Pelham (1748/49-1806).
• Members of several British aristocratic families: see Earl of Chichester, Earl of Yarborough, Earl of Lincoln

• Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament
• John Thomas Pelham (1811-1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857-1893
• John Pelham (officer) (1838-1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
• Richard Pelham (1815-1876), American blackface performer
• Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835-1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
• William Pelham (Medal of Honor recipient) (1845/47-1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor
• George F. Pelham (1857-1937), American architect
• Charles Pelham (1885-1940), lifeboat captain and forester

[edit] First name

• Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), English Baroque composer
• P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) (1881-1975), English comic writer
• Pelham von Donop (1851-1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
• Sir Pelham Francis Warner, English test cricketer

[edit] Places

Canada

• Pelham, Ontario

United Kingdom

• Pelham, Birmingham, a suburb within Birmingham

United States

• Pelham, Alabama
• Pelham, Georgia
• Pelham, Massachusetts
• Pelham, New Hampshire
• Pelham (town), New York
• Pelham (village), New York, within the town of Pelham
• Pelham Bay, Bronx, in New York City, and a number of places associated with it: see Pelham Bay (disambiguation)
• Pelham, North Carolina

Additionally, The Pelhams is a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County, New York

[edit] Other uses

• Pelham bit, a type of curb bit used while riding horses
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a novel by Morton Freedgood, and its three film adaptations