Henry Pelham (British Army officer)

Henry Pelham (1759–1797) was a British Army officer and politician, Member of Parliament for Lewes from 1780 to 1796.

[1] He was the second son of Thomas Pelham, 1st Earl of Chichester and his wife Anne Frankland, daughter of the Thirsk Member of Parliament Frederick Meinhardt Frankland, son of Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet; Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester was his elder brother.

[1][2] In the 1780s, still a serving army officer, Pelham was returned to parliament at Lewes, where his family had an electoral interest.

[3][4] At the time of the 1790 general election he was in poor health and out of the country, but was still returned.

Initially a Whig, he became a supporter of William Pitt the younger's administration.