Pelly entered the East India Company service in 1840. In 1841 he was commissioned in the Bombay Army as an ensign. He served in Sindbefore its annexation… See more

Pelly was secretary of the British legation in Tehran at the court of Persia from 1859 to 1860: taking … See more

In 1860 Pelly had travelled overland on a horse, in uniform, from Tehran most of the way to Calcutta, a feat that impressed Sir Bartle Frere. Like Rawlinson, Frere was a leading adv… See more

On 21 June 1873, Pelly was appointed agent to the governor general of Rajputana, remaining in this post until 1878. This was the period of the Baroda Crisis. The embattled … See more

In 1878 Pelly returned to the United Kingdom. In 1885, by now a lieutenant general, he was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for the newly created North Hack… See more

In 1878 Pelly married Amy Henrietta Lowder, who was born in 1847 at Calne in Wiltshire to the Rev. John Samuel Lowder. Her father was an Anglican chaplain in Shanghai, … See more