Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet (1623–1703) was an English landowner and Member of Parliament who sat in the Commons between 1645 and 1698.
John Pelham was born in 1623, eldest son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir Roger Wilbraham, the Solicitor General for Ireland.
After the Stuart Restoration, he sat as MP for Sussex from 1660 to 1681, and after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, was re-elected in 1689 before retiring in 1698.
[1] In 1694, Pelham attended a cricket match at Lewes and his personal accounts refer to him paying for a wager at the time.
This is one of the earliest references in cricket history in which a named individual is involved.