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Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet
b.Abt 1540
d.2 Dec 1624
Facts and Events
Personal History
In the Michaelmas term of 1561,[6] Thomas matriculated as fellow-commoner (the first of three ranks) from Queens College, Cambridge.
On 22 May 1611 when King James I instituted the Baronetcies of the kingdom of England, Thomas Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, Esq., was created a Baronet.[5]
Death and Probate
In his will dated 14 April 1620,[4] Sir Thomas Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, Baronet, named his son Thomas Pelham to be sole executor, with oversight by his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Walsingham, nephew Sir John Sherley, brother Anthony Sherley of Preston, and nephew Thomas Sherley. He wished his body to be buried in St Michael's Church, Lewes. The will was proved on 5 February 1624[/5] in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London.
From Wikipedia
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Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet (died 2 December 1624) was an English politician.
He was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton, East Sussex and his wife Anne Sackville, who was through her mother a first cousin of Anne Boleyn. He was educated at Lewes Grammar School (1557), Queens' College, Cambridge (1561) and studied law at the Inns of Court (1566). He succeeded his nephew Oliver Pelham as owner of Laughton in 1585.
He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lewes in 1584 and Sussex in 1586. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Sussex from c. 1583 and was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for 1589–90. He was a deputy-lieutenant of Sussex from 1601 and was created a baronet in 1611.
He married Mary, the daughter of Sir Thomas Walsingham of Chislehurst, Kent, with whom he had a son and daughter. His son Thomas succeeded him in the baronetcy in 1624, while his daughter Judith married Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Bt., in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- PELHAM, Thomas (d.1624), in The History of Parliament.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 “Will of Sir Thomas Pelham of Laughton, Sussex”, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions: Will registers. (Kew, England: The National Archives)
PROB 11/145/173; register Clarke (1625), qr 27, ff 217v–218v.
Digital image in England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384–1858 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/5111/40611_310872-00438 : accessed 13 Sept. 2019).
The last will and testament of “Thomas Pelham of Lawghton in the County of Sussex Baronett” dated 14 April 1620, 18 James, written in his own hand on six sheets of paper set to his seal; sole exor. son Thomas Pelham, overseers brother-in-law Sr Thomas Walsingham knight, nephew Sr John Sherley knight, brother Anthony Sherley of Preston Esq., nephew Thomas Sherley Esq.; no witnesses named. Having one codicil. Proved 5 Feb. 1624[/5], London.
- ↑ Great Britain. Public Record Office. Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. [Annual] Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London [England]: H. M. Stationery Office, 1840-)
6th appendix to the 47th annual report [20 Jan. 1886]: “Lists of Creations of Peers and Baronets, compiled from Original Documents in the Public Record Office”, p 125.
“[22 May 1611] Thomas Pelham of Lawghton, со. Sussex, Esq. Patent Roll [No. 1942] 9 Jas. I., p. 45, No. 82.”
- ↑ “Pelham, Thomas”, in Venn, John, and John Archibald Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge: from the earliest times to 1900. (Cambridge, England: University Press, 1922-)
part 1, vol 3, p 336.
(https://archive.org/details/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft/page/336 : accessed 15 Sept. 2019)
“Matric. Fell.-Com. from Queens', Michs., 1561. Doubtless 2nd s. of Sir Nicholas of Laughton, Sussex. B. c. 1540.”
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