Pelham
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Pelham may refer to:
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[edit] Surname
- British Whig politicians:
- Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653–1712) and his sons, both Prime Ministers of Great Britain
- Henry Pelham (1694–1754)
- Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768)
- 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)
- Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (1844–1905) , British nobleman and amateur cricketer
- Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament
- John Thomas Pelham (1811–1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857-1893
- John Pelham (officer) (1838–1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
- Richard Pelham (1815–1876), American blackface performer
- Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835–1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
- William Pelham (Medal of Honor recipient) (1845/47-1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor
- George F. Pelham (1857–1937), American architect
- Charles Pelham (1885–1940), lifeboat captain and forester
- Thomas Pelham (disambiguation) – various people
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- Pelham Humfrey (1647–1674), English Baroque composer
- P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) (1881–1975), English comic writer
- Pelham von Donop (1851–1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
- Plum Warner (Sir Pelham Francis Warner), English test cricketer
[edit] Places
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Pelham, Birmingham, a suburb within Birmingham
- United States
- Pelham, Alabama
- Pelham, Georgia
- Pelham, Massachusetts
- Pelham, New Hampshire
- Pelham Parkway, Bronx, New York
- Pelham Gardens, Bronx, New York
- Pelham (town), New York
- Pelham (village), New York, within the town of Pelham
- Pelham Bay (disambiguation)
- Pelham, North Carolina
- The Pelhams, New York, a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County, New York
[edit] Other uses
- Pelham, a novel written in 1828 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Pelham bit, a type of curb bit used while riding horses
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (disambiguation), a novel by Morton Freedgood, and its three film adaptations
- A type face in the Times Roman family
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