Francis Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester

Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (18 October 1844 – 21 April 1905), known as Hon.

Francis Pelham until 1902, was a British cleric and nobleman.

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a sporting 'blue', representing the university in athletics and cricket and playing cricket for Sussex before graduating with a BA in 1868.

He was also a member of the Wanderers amateur football club.

They had issue, including Jocelyn who succeeded to the title and their youngest son, Hon Herbert L Pelham, of the Royal Sussex Regiment, Croix De Chevalier Legion d’Honeur, who was killed during WWI, in the First Battle of the Aisne on September 14th 1914.