John Pelham

Rt. Rev. The Hon. John Thomas Pelham (21 June 1811 – 1 May 1894) His older brothers were Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester and Frederick Thomas Pelham, a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy. Pelham was educated at Westminster School and went then to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1832 and Master of Arts four years thereafter. In 1857, he received a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Oxford. In 1837, he was appointed rector at Bergh Apton until 1852, when he was transferred as curate to Christ Church, Hampstead. and spent the next year in Thorpe St Andrew. His oldest child was the scholar Henry Francis Pelham.

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