Sir Nicholas Pelham was a British politician.

The third son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet

Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1621 and 1654. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War....

 (but the first by Thomas' third wife Margaret), Pelham was educated at Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...

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Pelham was knighted on 20 April 1661, and served in several post-Restoration Parliaments for Seaford

Seaford (UK Parliament constituency)

The UK parliamentary constituency of Seaford was a Cinque Port constituency, similar to a parliamentary borough, in Seaford, East Sussex. A rotten borough, prone by size to undue influence by a patron, it was disenfranchised in the Reform Act of 1832...

 and Sussex

Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

Sussex was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832...

, and then in Lewes

Lewes (UK Parliament constituency)

Lewes is a constituency located in East Sussex and centred on the town of Lewes. It is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a safe Conservative seat until 1997, but the Liberal Democrats have gained a strong foothold.-Boundaries:The constituency is...

 from 1702 to 1705. He married Jane Huxley, daughter of James Huxley

James Huxley

James Huxley was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Huxley was the son of George Huxley of Edmonton where he was baptised on 6 November 1614. He was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1633...

 of Dornford, by whom he had two sons and one daughter:

• Thomas Pelham (1678?–c.1760)
• James Pelham
  James Pelham
  James Pelham was a British politician. A second cousin of Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle, he acted as Newcastle's political agent in Sussex for most of his political career....
  
   (c.1683–1761)
• Margaret Pelham, married Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.He was the older son of Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Baronet and Anne Watkins, daughter of Sir David Watkins. In 1697, he succeeded his father as baronet. Ashburnham was a Member of Parliament for Hastings in the Parliament of Great...
  
  

In 1726, his great-nephew, the Duke of Newcastle

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is commonly known as the Duke of Newcastle.A protégé of Sir Robert Walpole, he served...

, brought him back into Parliament at Lewes, at the by-election that ensued after the death of another of Nicholas' great-nephews, Henry Pelham

Henry Pelham (of Stanmer)

Henry Pelham was a British politician, the eldest son of Henry Pelham and his wife Frances Bine.Pelham was the first cousin of the Duke of Newcastle, who brought him into Parliament as Member for Hastings shortly after Henry reached his majority. Pelham was a reliable Government supporter,...

; Henry's brother Thomas

Thomas Pelham (of Stanmer)

Thomas Pelham was a British politician.The third son of Henry Pelham, he was apprenticed at a young age to John Lethieullier, a Turkey merchant in Constantinople, from which he got the name of "Turk" Pelham...

had declined to take the seat until after he returned from Constantinople. However, Thomas was again in England by the next general election in 1727, and Sir Nicholas stood down in his favor. Sir Nicholas died at an advanced age in 1739.