Pelham Aldrich CVO (8 December 1844 – 12 November 1930) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer,[1] who became Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth Docks.

As captain of Fawn he, along with the scientist Stephen Joseph Perry, observed the 1882 transit of Venus from an improvised tent observatory in Madagascar.

[8] He was promoted to captain on 29 June 1883, commanding the Sylvia and Egeria on further surveying expeditions of the Cape of Good Hope and Australia.

On board was Charles Wyville Thomson (who had been chief scientist on the Challenger Expedition) who named a crinoid Bathycrinus aldrichianus after Aldrich.

[12] He was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) by King Edward VII in 1902.