Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, 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 British peer and soldier.

Biography

Pelham was the second son of

Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough 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 Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, ...

and his wife, Marcia. In 1910, he became a Second Lieutenant in the

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and initially fought as a

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during

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before being promoted to the rank of

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in 1916. During the war, his elder brother,

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was

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and Sackville assumed the former's courtesy title of Lord Worsley. After the war, he was awarded the

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and retired from the Army in 1919 when he married Nancye Brocklehurst (a niece of Lord Ranksborough). The couple had two daughters, Diana Mary who became

Diana Miller, 11th Countess of Mértola Diana Mary Miller, 11th Countess of Mértola, 15th Baroness Conyers, 9th Baroness Fauconberg (5 July 1920 – 2 March 2013) was the eldest daughter of Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough. On the death of her father in 1948, she inherited the ...

(1920-2013) and (June) Wendy who married Michael Hildesley Lycett (1924-2012). In 1926, Lord Worsley became a

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in the

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and on the death of his mother that year, inherited the baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg and the Portuguese countship of Mértola. He later inherited the earldom of Yarborough from his father in 1936. From 1936 to 1940 the earl commanded the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry as a Lieutenant Colonel and fought in

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from 1939 to 1944. Together with his wife, he was a survivor of the aerial bomber bombardment of the RMS ''Empress of Britain'' in October 1940 (and later sinking under tow) in which 45 were killed off

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. On his death in 1948, the earldom,

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and a moderately large area of farmland passed to his brother,

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, whilst the countship passed to his eldest daughter, Lady Diana, and the baronies went into

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between his two daughters. The death of his youngest daughter in 2012 terminated that in favour of Diana, who thus succeeded him in the baronies.

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