Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet (1623–1703) was an English landowner and

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who sat in the

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between 1645 and 1698.

Personal details

John Pelham was born in 1623, eldest son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir

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, the

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. In January 1647, he married Lady Lucy Sydney, daughter of

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and his wife Lady Dorothy Percy. They had three sons and three daughters: *Dorothy Pelham, died at two days old (15 December 1648 - 17 December 1648)Kent Achives U1475/F24 p.28 *Elizabeth Pelham, married Edward Montagu *Lucy Pelham, married

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(c.1661–1721) He was succeeded by his son

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who was created Baron Pelham in 1706.

Career

In 1645, Pelham was elected

for

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to replace disabled Royalists in the

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. He was secluded in

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in 1648. He inherited the

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on the death of his father in 1654. In 1654 he was elected MP for Sussex in the

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and continued sitting in the

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until 1658. After the

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, he sat as MP for Sussex from 1660 to 1681, and after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, was re-elected in 1689 before retiring in 1698. In 1694, Pelham attended a

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match at Lewes and his personal accounts refer to him paying for a wager at the time. This is one of the earliest references in cricket history in which a named individual is involved.

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* * 1623 births 1703 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England

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