{{Short description|English politician (1650–1739)}} {{Distinguish|Nicholas Pelham (died 1560)}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=image alma_mater}} '''Sir Nicholas Pelham''' (1650 – 8 November 1739) was a British politician.
The third son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 2nd Baronet (but the first by Thomas' third wife Margaret), Pelham was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.
Pelham was knighted on 20 April 1661, and served in several post-Restoration Parliaments for Seaford and Sussex, and then in Lewes from 1702 to 1705. He married Jane Huxley, daughter of James Huxley of Dornford, by whom he had two sons and one daughter: * Thomas Pelham (c.1678–1759) * James Pelham (c.1683–1761) * Margaret Pelham, married Sir William Ashburnham, 2nd Baronet
In 1726, his great-nephew, the Duke of Newcastle, brought him back into Parliament at Lewes, at the by-election that ensued after the death of another of Nicholas's great-nephews, Henry Pelham; Henry's brother Thomas 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 favour. Sir Nicholas died at an advanced age in 1739.
==References== * {{cite book | title=The House of Commons 1715–1754 | volume=2 | first=Romney | last=Sedgwick | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York | year=1970 | page=333}}
{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | before=Sir William Thomas<br />Robert Morley | title=Member of Parliament for Seaford<br /><small>with Sir William Thomas</small> | years=1671–1679 | after=Sir William Thomas<br />Herbert Stapley}} {{succession box | before=Sir John Pelham<br />John Lewknor | title=Member of Parliament for Sussex<br /><small>with Sir John Pelham</small> | years=1679–1681 | after=Sir William Thomas<br />Sir John Fagg}} {{succession box | before=Edward Selwyn<br />Sir William Thomas | title=Member of Parliament for Seaford<br /><small>with William Campion</small> | years=1689–1690 | after=William Campion<br />Henry Pelham}} {{succession box | before=Thomas Pelham<br />Richard Payne | title=Member of Parliament for Lewes<br /><small>with Richard Payne</small> | years=1702–1705 | after=Richard Payne<br />Thomas Pelham}} {{s-par|gb}} {{succession box | before=Thomas Pelham<br />Henry Pelham | title=Member of Parliament for Lewes<br /><small>with Thomas Pelham</small> | years=1726–1727 | after=Thomas Pelham<br />Thomas Pelham}} {{s-end}}
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