biography
pronunciation:
[pelam]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1696–1754)
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| biography:
| British statesman and prime minister (1743–54), born in London, UK, the younger brother of Thomas Pelham. He took an active part in suppressing the Jacobite Rising of 1715, became secretary for war in 1724, and was a zealous supporter of Walpole. Events during his ministry (reconstructed in 1744 as the ‘broad-bottom administration’) were the Austrian Succession War, the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Financial Bill of 1750, the reform of the calendar, and the Earl of Hardwicke's Marriage Act. |
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