Sir Edward Henry Pelham

Sir Edward Henry Pelham (20 December 1876 – 18 December 1949) was a British civil servant who was Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education between 1931 and 1937. Early life and education Pelham was born at 20 Bradmore Road in North Oxford, the eldest son of classical scholar Henry Francis Pelham, President of Trinity College, Oxford, and Laura Priscilla Buxton, daughter of Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet. His grandfather was Bishop of Norwich Hon. John Thomas Pelham, third son of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, whose father, the 2nd Earl, was a first cousin of Prime Ministers Henry Pelham and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. His younger brother was Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness Herbert Pelham. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford.