Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough
Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough was a British politician.
Anderson-Pelham was born Charles Anderson in Broughton, Lincolnshire, the son of Francis Anderson and his wife Eleanor. His father died in 1758 and in 1763, he succeeded to the estates of his great-uncle Charles Pelham and assumed the additional surname of Pelham. In 1768 his mother remarried to Robert Vyner of Gautby, Lincolnshire, who was an MP.
Anderson-Pelham was elected to the House of Commons for Beverley in 1768, a seat he held until 1774, and then represented Lincolnshire until 1794. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Yarborough, of Yarborough in the County of Lincoln. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1771. The same year, he commissioned a marble statue of Mars from John Bacon, which he exhibited in his residence.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1777.
Lord Yarborough died in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, on 22 September 1823, aged 74. He had married Sophie, daughter of George Aufrere, in 1770, who died in 1786. He was succeeded in the barony by his son Charles, who was created Earl of Yarborough in 1837.Ancestry
