Henry Pelham (1749–1806); born Boston, but as a loyalist fled the American Revolution; agent (1787–98) to William, second Earl of Shelburne; cartographer, miniature painter and amateur antiquarian; engaged by the Royal Dublin Society to make a survey of Kerry, he also began a history of the county, but neither was ever apparently completed; met his death by drowning (Lansdowne, op. cit., 78–9, 88, who says he drowned in Bantry bay; see also Strickland, Dictionary of Irish artists, who says he drowned ‘by the upsetting of a boat’ in Kenmare bay; see further, M. G. Moyles and P. De Brún, 'Charles O'Brien's agricultural survey of Kerry, 1800', Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society I (1968) 73–6.