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Location
At Culver Down, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, PO35 Description An obelisk in memory of Charles Anderson Pelham, Earl Yarborough, 1780 - 1846. Constructed in 1848/9 When Bembridge Fort was built (1862-67), the Monument was moved to its present location. |
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Yarborough Monument
 Monument in the 1930's  Monument in December 2003  Inscription (east side)  Inscription (west side)  Coat of Arms |
Inscriptions
(Inscription on West side) TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES ANDERSON PELHAM EARL OF YARBOROUGH BARON YARBOROUGH OF YARBOROUGH IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN BARON WORSLEY OF APPULDURCOMBE IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A. WHOSE BENEVOLENCE KINDNESS, HEART AND MANY VIRTUES ENDEARED HIM TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED AS TESTIMONY AFFECTION AND RESPECT BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION (Inscription on East side) AS THE OWNER OF LARGE ESTATES HE WAS ONE OF THOSE MOST CONSPICUOUS FOR THE QUALITIES WHICH PECULIARLY ADORN THAT STATION AND AS THE FIRST COMMODORE OF THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON HE WAS EMINENT IN FOSTERING AND ENCOURAGING BY HIS EXAMPLE AND LIBERALITY ALL THAT WAS CALCULATED TO IMPROVE THE SCIENCE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND TO ADVANCE THE MARITIME INTRESTS [sic] OF HIS COUNTRY HE DIED ON BOARD HIS YACHT THE KESTREL IN THE PORT OF VIGO IN SPAIN SEPTEMBER 5TH 1846 AGED 65 Further Information
Sir William PELHAM married Eleanor, daughter of Henry Neville, Earl of Westmorland,
and was the ancestor of the Pelhams of Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.
In the fourth generation Charles Pelham died in 1763 without heirs,
leaving his estates to his great-nephew Charles Anderson (1749-1823),
who thereupon assumed the additional name of Pelham,
and was created Baron Yarborough in 1794.
His son Charles (1781-1846), who was for many years commodore of the
Royal Yacht Squadron, was created Earl of Yarborough and Baron Worsley in 1837.
Charles Alfred Worsley, the 4th earl (b. 1859),
exchanged the name of Anderson-Pelham for that of Pelham in 1905.
He married in 1886 Marcia Lane-Fox, eldest daughter of the 12th Baron Conyers,
who became in 1892 Baroness Conyers in her own right.
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