Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936), styled Lord Worsley until 1875, was a British peer and politician. Between 1890 and 1892, he served as

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, meaning as Chief Whip in the House of Lords, for the Conservative government of

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Background and education

Pelham was the eldest son of

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough (14 January 1835 – 6 February 1875), known as Lord Worsley from 1846 to 1852, was a British peer. Yarborough was the son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, and his wife M ...

, and his wife, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hare, daughter of

William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel, (22 September 1801 – 4 February 1856), known as Viscount Ennismore from 1827 to 1837, was an Irish peer and politician. Life Listowel was the eldest son of Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore, and Catherine Br ...

. He was educated at

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and

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. He originally used the surname Anderson-Pelham, but assumed by Royal licence the surname of Pelham only in 1905.

Political career

When Yarborough inherited his father's titles in 1875, he took up his seat in the

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as a Liberal but later became a

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over

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. In 1890 he was admitted to the Privy Council and made

under

, a post he held until 1892. During the

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a new regiment was formed as the Lincolnshire Imperial Yeomanry, of which Yarborough was appointed Lieutenant-colonel in June 1901 After the war it became a permanent unit as the

Lincolnshire Yeomanry The Lincolnshire Yeomanry was a volunteer cavalry unit of the British Army formed in 1794. It saw action in the Second Boer War and the First World War before being disbanded in 1920. History Formation and early history In 1793, the prime ministe ...

. Lord Yarborough was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the

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in 1898 and of the 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Army) in 1922.''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage,'' 100th Edn, London, 1953. In 1921 he was appointed

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, which he remained until his death in 1936. He was made a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1935. Other appointments he held until his death were: Provincial Grand Master of

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(Freemasons) from 1895 and Master of the Fox Hounds of

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from 1880.

Family

Lord Yarborough married Hon. Marcia Lane-Fox, daughter and co-heir of

Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers Sackville George Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers and ''de jure'' 15th Baron Darcy de Knayth (14 September 1827 – 24 August 1888) was a British peer and soldier. Early life Lane-Fox was the eldest son of Lady Charlotte Osborne (d. 1836) and Sack ...

, on 5 August 1886. They had four sons: * Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley (1887–1914). *

Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, Military Cross, MC (17 December 1888 – 7 February 1948), styled Lord Worsley from 1914 to 1926 and known as The Lord Conyers from 1926 until his accession to the earldom in 1936, was a Britis ...

(1888–1948). *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.

Coat of arms

References

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