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- Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the Battle of Preston. He spent time travelling in Europe before becoming MP for Seaford in Sussex, thanks to his brother’s patronage.
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Henry Pelham was a skilled administrator and financial manager. He had to find the resources to fund the War of the Austrian succession and was always very mindful of the costs of war and...
Pelham served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons. In November 1744, the Pelhams forced Lord Carteret out of the ministry: Pelham bluntly told the king that either Carteret step down, or the Pelhamites would, leaving His Majesty without a government.
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He married Lady Catherine Manners (d 1780), eldest daughter of John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland in 1726. They had two sons who both died in 1739, and six daughters, four of whom survived into adulthood: 1. Catherine, Countess of Lincoln (1727-1260) who married her cousin, Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln (later 2nd Duke of Newcast...
The Henry Pelhampapers, part of the Newcastle (Clumber) Collection, held in Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham, were inherited by his son-in-law, Henry Pelham-Clint...Details of collections held elsewhere are available through the National Register of Archives.Coxe, William, Memoirs of the Administration of the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, 2 vols (London, 1829, photographic reprint 1971)Kulisheck, P.J, The Duke of Newcastle and Henry Pelham, 1694-1754: a bibliography(Westport, Conn., 1997) [King’s Meadow Campus East Midlands Collection Not 508.V2 KUL]Owen, John B., The Rise of the Pelhams(London, 1971)Wilkes, J.W., A Whig in Power: the political career of Henry Pelham, Northwestern University Studies in History No. 3 (Evanston, Ill., 1964)Though he became First Lord of the Treasury in 1743, he emerged as Prime Minister only in 1746 after a prolonged and desperate struggle with his rival Lord Carteret. Carteret possessed more brilliant talents, and above all had the strong support of the king himself, George II.
Dec 17, 2014 · Pelham volunteered for the army during the pro-Stuart Jacobite rising of 1715, commanding dragoons at the Battle of Preston. He spent time travelling in Europe before becoming MP for...
Henry Pelham was the prime minister of Great Britain from 1743 to 1754. A somewhat colourless politician, he worked for peace abroad and introduced important financial reforms. The son of Thomas, 1st Lord Pelham, he was educated at Hart Hall (later Hertford College), Oxford, and then served briefly.
May 17, 2018 · Pelham was 1st lord of the Treasury for over ten years (1743–54) and highly regarded by his contemporaries. But time has faded his reputation between the vividly coloured careers of Walpole and Pitt the Elder.
