Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough (1781-1846), was the first Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron (1823-46) as well as one of its Original members.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and lived between Manby-in-Broughton, Lincolnshire, and Appledurcombe House on the Isle of Wight, inherited by his wife Henrietta from an uncle.
He was Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1803-1807, and for Lincolnshire1807-1823, also Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
His epitaph read:
'He appears to have been a man who went through life without making a single enemy, and one may search the history of the thirty years of his active life as a yachtsman without finding a rumour of any loss of temper or asperity of manner connected with his name, and that in circumstances which were most apt to arouse both. His was a moderating influence,which was successful in composing all the differences which arose during his reign in the counsels of the club, and with this unfailing urbanity he managed to combine a presence and an authority which were never questioned, and were the means of establishing the Squadron in the high position as a social and sporting institution which he had the happiness to see at its zenith before he died.'
Discipline aboard his ships Falcon and Kestrel was legendary, and appears to have been achieved without harshness. His crews even volunteered to be flogged if they misbehaved.