Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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English Earl
Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1888
Date of Death: 07-Feb-1948
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough
- Sackville George Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough, MC (17 December 1888 – 7 February 1948), styled Lord Worsley from 1914 to 1926 and known as The Lord Conyers from 1926 until his accession to the earldom in 1936, was a British peer and soldier. Pelham was the second son of Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough and his wife, Marcia.
- In 1910, he became a Second Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars and initially fought as a lieutenant in France during World War I before being promoted to the rank of captain in 1916.
- During the war, his elder brother, Charles was killed in action and Sackville assumed the former's courtesy title of Lord Worsley.
- After the war, he was awarded the Military Cross and retired from the Army in 1919 when he married Nancye Brocklehurst (a niece of Lord Ranksborough).
- The couple had two daughters, Diana Mary who became Diana Miller, 11th Countess of Mértola (1920-2013) and (June) Wendy (1924-2012).In 1926, Lord Worsley became a major in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and on the death of his mother that year, inherited the baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg and the Portuguese countship of Mértola.
- He later inherited the earldom of Yarborough from his father in 1936. From 1936-40 the earl commanded the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry as a Lieutenant Colonel and fought in World War II from 1939-44.
- Together with his wife, he was a survivor of the aerial bomber bombardment of the RMS Empress of Britain in October 1940 (and later sinking under tow) in which 45 were killed off Ireland.
- On his death in 1948, the earldom, Brocklesby Park and a moderately large area of farmland passed to his brother, Marcus, whilst the countship passed to his eldest daughter, Lady Diana, and the baronies went into abeyance between his two daughters.
- The death of his youngest daughter in 2012 terminated that in favour of Diana, who thus succeeded him in the baronies.
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