Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Yarborough
FRS FSA
Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire
In office
1774–1794
Preceded byThomas Whichcot
Lord Brownlow Bertie
Succeeded bySir John Thorold, Bt
Robert Vyner
Member of Parliament for Beverley
In office
1768–1774
Preceded byMichael Newton
George Forster Tufnell
Succeeded bySir James Pennyman, Bt
George Forster Tufnell
Personal details
Born
Charles Anderson

(1749-02-03)3 February 1749
Broughton, Lincolnshire
Died22 September 1823(1823-09-22) (aged 74)
Spouse
Sophie Aufrere
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(m. 1770; died 1786)​
RelationsFrancis Evelyn Anderson (brother)
Children7, Charles
Parent(s)Francis Anderson
Eleanor Carter
EducationEton College

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough FRS FSA (3 February 1749 – 22 September 1823) was a British politician.

Early life[edit]

Anderson-Pelham was born Charles Anderson in Broughton, Lincolnshire, the eldest son and heir of Francis Anderson and his wife Eleanor (née Carter) Anderson. His father died in 1758 and in 1763, he succeeded to the estates of his great-uncle Charles Pelham and assumed the additional surname of Pelham.[1] In 1768 his mother remarried to Robert Vyner of Gautby, Lincolnshire, who was an MP. From his mother's second marriage, he had a younger half-brother, Robert Vyner.[2]

His paternal grandparents were Francis Anderson, of Manby and Mary (née Pelham) Anderson. His maternal grandfather was Thomas Carter of Basavern, Denbigh and his uncle was the Rev. Robert Carter–Thelwall (whose daughter, Charlotte Thelwall, was the first wife of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans).[2]

Anderson entered Eton with his younger brother, Francis Evelyn Anderson, in 1763, the same year he assumed the surname Pelham. In 1789, he served as steward of the Eton anniversary.[3]

Career[edit]

Anderson-Pelham was elected to the House of Commons for Beverley in 1768, a seat he held until 1774, and then represented Lincolnshire until 1794. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Yarborough, of Yarborough in the County of Lincoln. After being elevated to the House of Lords, his seat in the House of Commons was taken by his younger half-brother, Robert Vyner.[4]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1771.[1] The same year, he commissioned a marble statue of Mars from John Bacon, which he exhibited in his residence.[5]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777 and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1796.[6]

Personal life[edit]

On 21 July 1770, Charles was married to Sophie Aufrere, daughter and heir of George Aufrere of Chelsea.[7] Before her death on 25 January 1786, they were the parents of:[8]

Lord Yarborough died in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, on 22 September 1823, aged 74. He was succeeded in the barony by his son Charles, who was created Earl of Yarborough in 1837.[2]

Descendants[edit]

Through his daughter Arabella, he was a grandfather of Charles Fieschi Heneage (1806–1885), who married Louisa Elizabeth Graves (a daughter of Thomas Graves, 2nd Baron Graves), and parents of Admiral Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage.[9][10]

Through his daughter Maria, he was a grandfather of Charlotte Anne Josephine Tennant, who married Sir Richard Rycroft, 3rd Baronet.[11]

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "ANDERSON PELHAM, Charles (1749–1823), of Brocklesby, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Cokayne, George Edward (1898). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. G. Bell & sons. p. 208. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  3. ^ College, Eton (1921). The Eton College Register, 1753-1790. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Company, Limited. pp. 411–412. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  4. ^ Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
  5. ^ Smith, Nollekens &c., Vol. II, p. 156.
  6. ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 February 2012.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Sophia Pelham (née Aufrere) (1752 or 1753-1786), Wife of Charles Anderson-Pelham, later 1st Baron Yarborough". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 4262.
  9. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets. Dean and Son. 1888. p. 31. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  10. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1898. p. 1569. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  11. ^ Walford, Edward (1876). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. p. 845. Retrieved 10 November 2022.

External links[edit]

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Beverley
1768–1774
With: Hugh Bethell 1768–1772
Sir Griffith Boynton, Bt 1772–1774 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire
1774–1794
With: Lord Brownlow Bertie 1774–1779
Sir John Thorold, Bt 1779–1774 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation Baron Yarborough
1794–1823 		Succeeded by
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