Dudley Pelham


Captain The Honourable Dudley Worsley Anderson-Pelham, was a British naval commander and Whig politician.

Background

Anderson-Pelham was a younger son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough, by his wife Henrietta Anne Maria Charlotte, daughter of the Honourable John Simpson and Henrietta Worsley. Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, was his elder brother.

Career

Anderson-Pelham was a Captain in the Royal Navy. He was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for Boston at a by-election in 1849,
a seat he held until his early death in April 1851, aged 38.

Family

Anderson-Pelham married Madalina, second daughter of Admiral Sir John Gordon Sinclair of Murkle, 8th Baronet, and sister and co-heiress of Sir Robert Charles Sinclair of Murkle, 9th Baronet, in 1839.