PELHAM, Frederick Thomas (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served on the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on Lisbon station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam frigate in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July 1855; K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to June 1861. d. Brighton 21 June 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.
PELHAM, John Thomas (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b. 21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R. of Bergh Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich cathedral 1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London 27 Dec. 1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned early in 1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857; founded a diocesan church association for building churches and in 1879 a diocesan conference; published Hymns for public worship 1855, and printed 7 charges and sermons. d. Sunnyhill, Thorpe, Norwich 1 May 1894. bur. Berghampton 5 May. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 45 portrait; Black and White 12 May 1894 p. 571 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 365 (1865) portrait; Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893 p. 14 portrait.
Note.—His fourth, son Herbert Pelham, b. 1855; educ. Haileybury and Magd. coll. Oxf.; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and 1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s, Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death; d. at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries received in a fall while mountain climbing. Times 1 June 1881 p. 12.
PELHAM, Richard Ward. b. 1816; was often known as R. W. Pell; the first to introduce negro entertainments in America and England, the four original Virginia minstrels were R. W. Pelham, F. M. Brower, D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took farewell benefit at Park theatre, New York 19 April 1843, arrived in England 21 May 1843; gave 5 concerts at Bold st. hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the Athenæum, Manchester, and 6 nights at Queen’s theatre, Manchester, the first theatre a band of minstrels ever appeared in; made first appearance at Adelphi theatre, London 19 June 1843, under John Henry Anderson, at expense of £100 a week; the oldest manager of negro minstrels in the world. d. 2 Harford st. Liverpool 8 Oct. 1876. bur. Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. G. W. Moore’s Bones (1870) pp. 3–4, Dedicated to R. W. Pelham.
PELHAM-CLINTON, Robert Renebald (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle 1785–1851). b. Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6 July 1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. d. Earlswood, Reigate 25 July 1867.
PELL, Gilbert Ward. b. New York 1825; the original “Bones” of the negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London under title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell was bones, Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo and Germain tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer in boots was also in the company. d. 21 Dec. 1872. bur. St. Helen’s cemetery, Lancs. 24 Dec.
PELL, Morris Birkbeck. b. U.S. of America about 1826; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s junior prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March 1852; the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in univ. of Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a pension 1877; fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister of supreme court of N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and sewerage and the Hunter river floods preventions commissions; actuary of the Australian mutual provident society; author of Geometrical illustrations of the differential calculus 1850. d. Sydney 7 May 1879.
PELL, Oliver Claude (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of court of review, d. 1832), b. Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept. 1826; educ. Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone v. Rugby 16 June 1842, a fine back player combined with hard forward hitting to leg, could throw a ball a great distance; in the university and All England cricket elevens; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1851; took an active part in the public affairs of Isle of Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of Isle of Ely county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting prizes at Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated Scotland 1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton; author of A new view of the geldable unit of assessment of domesday, printed in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i, pp. 227–385. d. Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 81 (1863).
PELL, Sir Watkin Owen (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall, Northamptonshire). b. 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his left leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb. 1800; commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct. 1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the coast of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica station May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the Howe 1840; superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug. 1841, then at Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 17 Dec. 1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 18 Feb. 1845; R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855, admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869. I.L.N. lvi 82 (1870).
PELLATT, Apsley (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the glass lenses known as deck lights, d. 21 Jany. 1826). b. 80 High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father at the Falcon glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a patent for crystallo-ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pressed glass articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for improvements in the composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council of city of London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested Southwark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for facilitating dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his bill to define the law as to crossed cheques was passed and became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862, and wrote the report on glass manufactures; author of Memoir on the origin, progress and improvement of glass manufactures 1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of glass making 1849. d. of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field, Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii 511 (1863); H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 67–9 (1865); Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 166; I.L.N. xxii 237 (1853) portrait.