Reverend Francis Godolphin Pelham, 5th Earl of Chichester (18 October 1844 – 21 April 1905), known as Hon. Francis Pelham until 1902, was a British cleric and nobleman.
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Life
Pelham was the son of Henry Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester and Lady Mary Brudenell. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a sporting 'blue', representing the university in athletics and cricket and playing cricket for Sussex before graduating with a BA in 1868. Pursuing a career in the church, he was rector of Lambeth from 1884 to 1894, rector of Buckhurst Hill, Essex from 1894 to 1900 and Vicar of Great Yarmouth from 1900 to 1903. He was also a Canon of Bangor Cathedral.
Pelham succeeded his elder brother Walter Pelham (who died childless) as Earl of Chichester in May 1902.
He was also a member of the Wanderers amateur football club.
Marriage and issue
On 4 August 1870 he married Alice Carr Glyn, daughter of George Glyn, 1st Baron Wolverton, and Marianne Grenfell. They had issue, including Jocelyn who succeeded to the title and their youngest son, Hon Herbert L Pelham, of the Royal Sussex Regiment, Croix De Chevalier Legion d'Honeur, who was killed during WWI, in the First Battle of the Aisne on September 14th 1914. Alice was the Central President of Mothers' Union from 1910 to 1916, second President of the organization after its foundress, Mary Elizabeth Sumner.