Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

British peer and politician

The Right Honourable

The Earl of Yarborough

KG PC

"Brocklesby". The Earl of Yarborough as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1896.

Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
11 August 1890 – 11 August 1892
Monarch| Victoria
Prime Minister| The Marquess of Salisbury
Preceded by| The Earl of Rosslyn
Succeeded by| The Lord Vernon
Personal details
Born| 11 June 1859
Died| 12 July 1936 (1936-07-13) (aged 77)
Nationality| British
Political party| Liberal
Conservative
Spouse| Marcia Lane-Fox
Alma mater| Trinity College, Cambridge

Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough KG PC (11 June 1859 – 12 July 1936), styled Lord Worsley until 1875, was a British peer and politician. Between 1890 and 1892, he served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, meaning as Chief Whip in the House of Lords, for the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury.

## Background and education

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Pelham was the eldest son of Charles Anderson-Pelham, 3rd Earl of Yarborough, and his wife, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Hare, daughter of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He originally used the surname Anderson-Pelham, but assumed by Royal licence the surname of Pelham only in 1905.[2]

## Political career

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When Yarborough inherited his father's titles in 1875, he took up his seat in the Lords as a Liberal but later became a Conservative over Irish Home Rule. In 1890 he was admitted to the Privy Council[3] and made Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under Lord Salisbury,[4] a post he held until 1892.[5]

During the Second Anglo-Boer War a new regiment was formed as the Lincolnshire Imperial Yeomanry, of which Yarborough was appointed Lieutenant-colonel in June 1901[6] After the war it became a permanent unit as the Lincolnshire Yeomanry. Lord Yarborough was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1898 and of the 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Army) in 1922.[7][8]

In 1921 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, which he remained until his death in 1936. He was made a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1935. Other appointments he held until his death were: Provincial Grand Master of Lincolnshire (Freemasons) from 1895 and Master of the Fox Hounds of Brocklesby from 1880.

## Family

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Lord Yarborough married Hon. Marcia Lane-Fox, daughter and co-heir of Sackville Lane-Fox, 12th Baron Conyers, on 5 August 1886. They had four sons:

* Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley (1887-1914).
* Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough (1888-1948).
* D'Arcy Francis (b.& d. 1892).
* Marcus Herbert Pelham, 6th Earl of Yarborough (1893-1966).

Lord Yarborough died in July 1936, aged 77, and was succeeded by his second but eldest surviving son, Sackville.

## Coat of arms

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Coat of arms of Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough

Coronet
A coronet of an Earl
Crest
A peacock in pride argent.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th azure, three pelicans vulning themselves argent; 2nd and 3rd gules, two pieces of belts with buckles, erect in pale, the buckles upwards argent.
Supporters
Dexter: a bay-horse, regardant, charged on the body with three antique buckles, in bend sinister or; sinister, a water-spaniel dog, regardant, or, charged on the body with three crosses-flory in bend sable.
Motto
Vincit amor patriae (The love of my country will prevail).[9]

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## References

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1. ^ "Yarlborough, Earl of (Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham) (YRBH878EO)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. ^ "No. 27855". The London Gazette. 17 November 1905. p. 7706.
3. ^ "No. 26109". The London Gazette. 25 November 1890. p. 6455.
4. ^ "No. 26078". The London Gazette. 12 August 1890. p. 4377.
5. ^ "No. 26321". The London Gazette. 30 August 1892. p. 4958.
6. ^ "No. 27330". The London Gazette. 5 July 1901. p. 4476.
7. ^ Monthly Army List, various dates.
8. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
9. ^ Debrett's peerage & baronetage 2003. London: Macmillan. 2003. p. 1706.

Political offices

Preceded by

The Earl of Rosslyn

|  Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
1890-1892  | Succeeded by

The Lord Vernon

Honorary titles
Preceded by

The Earl Brownlow

|  Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
1921-1936  | Succeeded by

The Lord Brownlow

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by

Charles Anderson-Pelham

|  Earl of Yarborough
1875-1936  | Succeeded by

Sackville Pelham

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