Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough

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

Anderson-Pelham was born Charles Anderson in Broughton, Lincolnshire, the son of Francis Anderson and his wife Eleanor (née Carter). 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.

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. 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.[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.[3]

Lord Yarborough died in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, on 22 September 1823, aged 74. He had married Sophie, daughter of George Aufrere, in 1770, who died in 1786. He was succeeded in the barony by his son Charles, who was created Earl of Yarborough in 1837.

Ancestry

Notes
  1. "ANDERSON PELHAM, Charles (1749–1823), of Brocklesby, Lincs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. Smith, Nollekens &c., Vol. II, p. 156.
  3. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 27 February 2012.

References
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Michael Newton
George Forster Tufnell		 Member of Parliament for Beverley
1768–1774
With: Hugh Bethell 1768–1772
Sir Griffith Boynton, Bt 1772–1774		 Succeeded by
Sir James Pennyman, Bt
George Forster Tufnell
Preceded by
Thomas Whichcot
Lord Brownlow Bertie		 Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire
1774–1796
With: Lord Brownlow Bertie 1774–1779
Sir John Thorold, Bt 1779–1774		 Succeeded by
Sir John Thorold, Bt
Robert Vyner
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation Baron Yarborough
1794–1823		 Succeeded by
Charles Anderson-Pelham

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