Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough KG, PC (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936), styled Lord Worsley until 1875, was a British peer and politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under Lord Salisbury between 1890 and 1892.

Background and education

Pelham was the eldest son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough and his wife, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hare, daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] He originally used the surname Anderson-Pelham, but assumed by Royal license the surname of Pelham only in 1905.^[2]

Political career

When Yarborough inherited his father's titles in 1875, he took up his seat in the Lords as a Liberal but later became a Conservative over Irish Home Rule. In 1890 he was admitted to the Privy Council^[3] and made Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under Lord Salisbury,^[4] a post he held until 1892.^[5] In 1921 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, which he remained until his death in 1936. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1935. Other appointments he held until his death were: Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire (Freemasons) from 1895 and Master of the Fox Hounds of Brocklesby from 1880.

Family

Lord Yarborough married the Honourable Marcia Lane-Fox, daughter and co-heir of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers, on 5 August 1886. They had four sons:

• Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley (1887–1914).
• Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough (1888–1948).
• Hon. D'Arcy Francis (b.& d. 1892).
• Marcus Herbert Pelham, 6th Earl of Yarborough (1893–1966).

Lord Yarborough died in July 1936, aged 77, and was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, Sackville.

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