William Pelham
1590/1–1644
Of Brocklesby, Lincolnshire. Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1607; entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1609. Married Frances, daughter of Edward Conway, Viscount Conway. Served abroad under his father and held several offices under the Crown. Fought for Charles I in the English Civil War. Knighted, 1616.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
G. E. Collins 1902, pp. 6–7
Collins’s peerage s.v. Yarborough
Bibliography
Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.
Collins, George E. 1902. History of the Brocklesby hounds 1700–1901. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company.
Collins’s peerage: Collins’s peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical. Greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. By Egerton Brydges. 9 vols. London: F. C. and J. Rivington [and others]. 1812.
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