Pelham (name) explained

Pelham is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Surname

British aristocratic Whig politicians:

• Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653–1712), father of two British Prime Ministers:
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768)
  • Henry Pelham (1694–1754)

American artistic family:

• Peter Pelham (c. 1695 – 1751), artist
• Peter Pelham (composer) (1721–1805)
• Henry Pelham (engraver) (1748/49–1806)
• William Pelham (bookseller) (1759–1827)

Other people (in alphabetical order):

• Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835–1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
• Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (1844–1905), British nobleman and amateur cricketer
• Frederick Thomas Pelham (1808–1861), Royal Navy officer and Second Naval Lord
• George F. Pelham (1857–1937), American architect
• Henry Francis Pelham (1846-1907), English scholar and historian
• John Pelham (bishop) (1811–1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857–1893
• John Pelham (officer) (1838–1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
• Moses Pelham (born 1971), German rapper and musician
• Peregrine Pelham (died 1650), British Member of Parliament
• Richard Pelham (1815–1876), American blackface performer
• Thomas Pelham (disambiguation), various people
• William Pelham (Medal of Honor) (1845/47–1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor

Fictional characters:

• Bertie Pelham, a character on the television drama Downton Abbey and its film adaptation

First name

• Pelham Horton Box (1898-1937), British historian
• Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674), English Baroque composer
• Sir Pelham Warner ("Plum Warner", 1873–1963), English test cricketer
• P. G. von Donop (Pelham George von Donop, 1851–1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
• P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, 1881–1975), English author, lyricist, playwright