biography text
Sir Nicholas Pelham was brought back to Parliament at the age of 75 by his great-nephew, the Duke of Newcastle, as a stop-gap to fill the vacancy created by the death of another great-nephew, Henry Pelham of Stanmer. Replaced at the next general election, he died 8 Nov. 1739 in his ninetieth year. An obituary notice writes of him:
He was upwards of sixty years in the commission of the peace, a gentleman of the most exemplary life, having spent all his days in the continued exercise of piety and charity.1Gent. Mag. 1739, p. 605.