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PELHAM, HENRY THOMAS, 3RD EARL OF CHICHESTER, second son of Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester (qv); b. 25 Aug 1804; adm. 30 Oct 1815 (G); left owing to a severe illness, contracted while ditchleaping on St. David’s Day; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 21 Apr 1822, matr. 1822; Cornet, 15th Light Dragoons 10 Jun 1824; Lieut., 28 Apr 1827; Capt., half-pay, unattached 3 Jan 1828; Brevet Maj., 23 Nov 1841; retd. 7 Jun 1844; succ. father as 3rd Earl of Chichester 4 Jul 1826; initially a Tory, but took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords after 1830; an Ecclesiastical Commissioner 22 Feb 1841; First Church Estates Commissioner 1850-78; DL Sussex 1827, Lord Lieut. from 21 Nov 1860; belonged to Evangelical wing of Church of England; President, Church Missionary Society, for some fifty years; Busby Trustee 28 Jun 1861; m. 18 Aug 1828 Lady Mary Brudenell, fifth dau. of Robert Brudenell, 6th Earl of Cardigan; d. 15 Mar 1886. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.