Sir Edward Henry Pelham
British civil servant
About Sir Edward Henry Pelham
Lived 1876 – 1949 (aged 72). Sir Edward Henry Pelham was a British british Civil Service.
Sir Edward Henry Pelham (20 December 1876 – 18 December 1949) was a British civil servant who was Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education between 1931 and 1937.
Early life and education
Pelham was born at 20 Bradmore Road in North Oxford, the eldest son of classical scholar Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College, Oxford, and Laura Priscilla Buxton, daughter of Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet. His grandfather was Bishop of Norwich Hon. John Thomas Pelham, third son of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, whose father, the 2nd Earl, was a first cousin of Prime Ministers Henry Pelham and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. His younger brother was Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness Herbert Pelham. and promoted to Knight Commander in the same order (KCB) in the 1933 New Year Honours.
Personal life
In 1905, Pelham married Hon. Irene Lubbock, fifth and youngest daughter of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury and Alice Augusta Laurentius Lane-Fox, daughter of Augustus Pitt Rivers. They had two sons and three daughters:
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British civil servant (1876-1949)
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Sir Edward Henry Pelham was born on 20 December 1876 in North Oxford.
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Sir Edward Henry Pelham died on 18 December 1949 in Oxford.
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