Dudley Pelham

Captain The Honourable Dudley Worsley Anderson-Pelham (20 April 1812 – 13 April 1851), was a British naval commander and Whig politician.

1 Background
2 Career
3 Family
4 References
5 External links

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c cracroftspeerage.co.uk Earl of Yarborough
^ London Gazette: no. 21006. p. 2451. 7 August 1849. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Hon. Dudley Pelham

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir James Duke, Bt Benjamin Bond Cabbell	Member of Parliament for Boston 1849–1851 With: Benjamin Bond Cabbell	Succeeded by Benjamin Bond Cabbell James William Freshfield

Persondata
Name	Anderson-Pelham,Dudley
Alternative names
Short description	British Member of Parliament
Date of birth	20 April 1812
Place of birth
Date of death	13 April 1851
Place of death