Pelham

Pelham

Pelham may refer to:

People

urname

* British Whig politicians: Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham (1653-1712) and his sons, both Prime Ministers of Great Britain: Henry Pelham (1694-1754) and his brother Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768)
* American artistic family: artist Peter Pelham (c.1695-1751) and his sons: composer Peter Pelham (1721-1805) and artist Henry Pelham (1748/49-1806).
* Members of several British aristocratic families: see Earl of Chichester, Earl of Yarborough, Earl of Lincoln

* Peregrine Pelham, British Member of Parliament
* John Thomas Pelham (1811-1894), Bishop of Norwich in 1857-1893
* John Pelham (officer) (1838-1863), Confederate artillery officer during the American Civil War
* Richard Pelham (1815-1876), American blackface performer
* Charles Pelham (congressman) (1835-1908), U.S. Representative from Alabama
* William Pelham (Medal of Honor recipient) (1845/47-1933), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor
* George F. Pelham (1857-1937), American architect
* Charles Pelham (1885-1940), lifeboat captain and forester

First name

* Pelham Humfrey (1647-1674), English Baroque composer
* P. G. Wodehouse (Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) (1881-1975), English comic writer
* Pelham von Donop (1851-1921), English footballer, soldier and railway inspector, godfather to P. G. Wodehouse
* Sir Pelham Francis Warner, English test cricketer

Places

;Canada
*Pelham, Ontario
*Pelham Range

;United Kingdom
*Pelham, Birmingham, a suburb within Birmingham

;United States
*Pelham, Alabama
*Pelham, Georgia
*Pelham, Massachusetts
*Pelham, New Hampshire
*Pelham (town), New York
*Pelham (village), New York, within the town of Pelham
*Pelham Bay, Bronx, in New York City, and a number of places associated with it: see Pelham Bay (disambiguation)
*Pelham, North Carolina

Additionally, "The Pelhams" is a colloquial name for an area of towns of Westchester County, New York

Other uses

*Pelham bit, a type of curb bit used while riding horses
*"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", a novel by Morton Freedgood, and its three film adaptations


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