Background
Pelham was the son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet of Halland in Laughton and his wife Mary Walsingham.
Pelham was the son of Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet of Halland in Laughton and his wife Mary Walsingham.
He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. He was baptised at East Hoathly on 22 September 1597. In 1624 he was elected Member of Parliament for Sussex in the last parliament of King James I and was re-elected in 1625 in the first parliament of King Charles I. He succeeded to the baronetcy of Laughton, company
Sussex on the death of his father on 2 December 1624.
He was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament and sat until he was secluded under Pride"s Purge in 1648. Pelham died at the age of 57 and was buried at Laughton on 28 August 1654.
Pelham married, firstly, Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir Roger Wilbraham.
Short Parliament; Useless Parliament. Happy Parliament]
Pelham was elected Member of Parliament for East Grinstead in 1621 and held the seat to 1622. In April 1640, Pelham was elected Member of Parliament for Sussex in the Short Parliament.