Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet (1623–1703) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

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 variously between 1644 and 1698.

Pelham was the 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....

 and his wife Mary Wilbraham.

In 1645, Pelham was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Hastings

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 to replace disabled Royalists in the Long Parliament

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. He was secluded in Pride's Purge

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 in 1648. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1654. In 1654 he was elected MP for Sussex

Sussex (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the First Protectorate Parliament

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 and continued sitting in the Second Protectorate Parliament

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 until 1658. After the Restoration he was MP for Sussex from 1660 to 1681 and from 1689 to 1698.

Pelham married Lady Lucy Sydney, daughter of Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester and his wife Lady Dorothy Percy, on 20 January 1647. He was succeeded by his son Thomas

Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham

Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton Bt was a moderate English Whig politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies. He is best remembered as father of two British prime ministers who, between them, served for 18 years as first minister...

who was created Baron Pelham in 1706.