Talk:Henry Cressett Pelham

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Confusion between two Henry Pelhams?

It looks to me as if there may be confusion between two C18th MPs called Henry Pelham on this page.Dsp13 (talk) 21:53, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked into this most carefully, and I believe that it's in fact Venn who is in error. As you can see from Henry Pelham (disambiguation), there are two Henry Pelhams more or less contemporaneous: Henry Cressett Pelham, the son of Thomas Pelham (of Lewes, senior), who lived from c.1729 to 1803, and Hon. Henry Pelham (British Army officer), the son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester, who lived from 1759 to 1797. From the fragments on Google Books, both Narnier and Brooke, in The House of Commons, 1754-1790 and Judd in Members of Parliament, 1734-1832 identify the Henry Pelham who lived 1759–1797 as being the Member returned for Lewes in 1780. Furthermore, The Parliamentary History of England, pub. 1803, identifies the member returned for Lewes in 1780 as being "second son of lord Pelham [later Chichester]; an officer in the foot guards", clearly a reference to the 1759–1797 Pelham. Meanwhile, the parish registers of Cound clearly identify Henry Cressett Pelham as being the one who died in 1803. Venn appears to have hopelessly muddled their parentages: it was Thomas Pelham of Lewes, not of Stanmer, who married his cousin Elizabeth; Thomas Pelham of Stanmer married Annetta Bridges and was the father of the 1st Earl of Chichester. See for instance Collins' Peerage. None of the Henry Pelhams on our current disambiguation page (most of whom were MPs) have a birthdate consistent with a 1760 matriculation. Choess (talk) 02:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC) (copied from User talk:Dsp13)[reply]

Hardinge

I've just created Nicholas Hardinge. This son-in-law could be added to that page, but I'm not quite clear where the information comes from. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]