Henry Pelham

Prime Minister of Great Britain

25 September 1694 Laughton, Sussex, England

6 March 1754(1754-03-06) (59) St James's, Middlesex, England

27 August 1743 – 6 March 1754

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 to 1754 For other people named Henry Pelham, see Henry Pelham (disambiguation). Henry Pelham FRS (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Pelham is generally considered to have been Britain's third prime minister, after Robert Walpole and the Earl of Wilmington. Pelham's premiership was relatively uneventful in terms of domestic affairs, although it was during his premiership that Great Britain experienced the tumult of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. In foreign affairs, Britain fought in several wars. On Pelham's death, his brother Newcastle took full control of the British government.