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 196 CHICHESTER VI. 1805. 2, Thomas (Pelham), Earl OF Chichester, &'c., 1st s. and h., b. in Spring Gardens 28 Apr., and hap. 26 May 1 756, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. Ed. at Westm. school and at Clare Hall, Cambridge, M.A., 1775; M.P. C) for Sussex, in several Paris., 1780 to 1 801; and for Carrick-on-Shannon [I.], 1783-90; for Clogher [I.], 1795-97; and for Armagh [I.], 1797-99, being elected also for Naas [I.] 1797. Surveyor Gen. of the Ordnance, 1782-83; Chief Sec. to the Lord Lieut, of Ireland 1783-84, and again, 1795-98; P. C. [I.] 13 Sep. 1783; P.C. [G.B.] II Mar. 1795. Sec. of State for Ireland, 1796-97. F.R.S. 24 Apr. 1800. In June 1801, on his father's elevation to an Earldom, he was sum. to the House of Lords, in his father's Barony, as LORD PELHAM OF STANMER.C") Commissioner of the Board of Control for India, 1801. Sec. of State for the Home Department, i 801-03 ;('^) Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1 803-04; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard for a few weeks, in June 1804; Joint Postmaster G&w.., 1 807-23. ('^) At the Coronation, in July 1821, he was assistant Carver. Postmaster Gen., 1823-26. Pres. of the Royal Institution 1825 till his death. He »?., 16 July 1 801, at Lambeth Palace, Mary Henrietta Juliana, ist da. of Francis Godolphin (Osborne), 5th Duke of Leeds, by his ist wife, Amelia, suo jure Baroness Conyers. He d. 4 July 1826, aged 70, in Stratton Str.(^) Will pr. Oct. 1826. His widow, who was b. in Grosvenor Sq., Midx., 7 Sep. 1776, 1^. 21 Oct. 1862, in Grosvenor Place, Midx., aged 86. VII. 1826. 3. Henry Thomas (Pelham), Earl of Chichester, ^c, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., ^.25 Aug. 1804, in Stratton Str., Piccadilly, Midx. Ed. at Westm. school, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge. An officer in the Royal Horse Guards, 1824-44; Major in the Army, 1841. Ecclesiastical Commissioner, 1841 till his death; Pres. of the Roy. Agric. Soc. 1849; Chief Commissioner for Ecclesiastical estates, 1850-78 ; Lord Lieut, of Sussex, 1860-86. A Liberal. Hew., ('') He was a Whig until 1794, when he (and his father) joined Pitt; after which he was a Tory for the rest of his hfe. V.G. (^) For a list of eldest sons of peers sum. to Pari. v.p. in one of their father's peerages, see vol. i, Appendix G. [f) For a list of Secretaries of State see vol. ii, Appendix D. {^) On the death of his colleague, the Marquess of Salisbury, in 1823, the custom of having two Joint Postmasters Gen. (which had obtained, with few and brief inter- missions, since 1 691) ceased, and has not since been revived. V.G. if) " As Commander of the Sussex Militia, Lieut. Col. Pelham, by the urbanity of his manners, and his strict attention to the duties and discipline of the Regiment, attracted and retained the regard of the leading families of the County." [Ann. Reg. for 1826). A highly favourable notice of him as "a man of rank, abilities, dignified mind and generous sentiments" and "of unsuspected integrity" is given in A Review of the Irish House of Commons by the Rev. John R. Scott, a Whig writer; and it is there added that "he had the honour of being supported, when Secretary, by that truly respectable body of men the Independent country gentlemen of Ireland, who so seldom think themselves justified in co-operating with administration."