Lewis Pelly

Lewis Pelly
Born	14 November 1825 Minchinhampton
Died	22 April 1892 Falmouth
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Indian Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India

Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly, KCSI (14 November 1825 – 22 April 1892) was Conservative Member of Parliament for Hackney North from 1885 to 1892 and an East India Company officer.

He was the son of John Hinde Pelly of Hyde House, Gloucestershire and was educated at Rugby School. Sir John Henry Pelly, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Governor of the Bank of England, was his uncle.

He entered the East India Company service in 1840 and served in Sind before its annexation. Appointed to the regimental staff in 1842, he was promoted to lieutenant in 1843.

In 1852, he acted as Assistant Reader at the Court of Guicowar and then he transferred to the civil service of Sind until 1856, being promoted to Captain in 1855. As aide-de-camp to General John Jacob in 1857, he commanded a troop of cavalry in that year's Persian expedition. He was secretary to Sir James Outram during the occupation of Bushire and Kharack and was in the Frontier Force of the Sind Irregular Horse in 1858, before being a judge in Kurrachee in 1859.

He was Secretary of Legation at the Court of Persia from 1859 to 1860, before being appointed chargé d'affaires there. During his time in this post, he was sent on a special mission through Eastern Persia, Oman, Herat, Afghanistan and Balochistan in 1860 and to the Comoros Islands and Mozambique in 1861. In May 1861, he was part of the expedition which eventually placed Bahrain under British rule.

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