Reverend Raymond Percy Pelly was born in February 1841 at Upton in West Ham, Essex.

The 1841 census shows him at 2 months old with his father, also Raymond, a merchant, his mother, Louisa, and his brother, Charles.
They were living in the same house as the Fry family, Joseph, Elizabeth, Catherine & Daniel. Elizabeth Fry became famous for her efforts to reform the prison system in Britain in the early nineteenth century. Wikipedia Reference

In March 1864 he married Alice Larkins. They had eight children, Douglas R, 1865, Alice M, 1867, Ellen G, 1870, Margaret E, 1871, Raymond T, 1882, Dorothy C, 1884, Ina Marjorie E, 1885, & Raymond, 1888.

He studied at Trinity College Cambridge gaining a BA in 1863 and an MA in 1867

He was Vicar of Matlock Bath from 1869 to 1875 and of All Saints, Woodford Wells, until 1881. After leaving St Johns he was Vicar of St Mary's, Saffron Walden until 1896 and then Vicar of Great Malvern, Worcester, until 1906

He died in December 1911 at Battle, Sussex

1841 Census (West Ham), 1861 Census (Westerham, Kent) (Visiting wifes sister), 1871 Census (Matlock Bath, Derby), 1881 Census (Woodford), 1891 Census (Saffron Walden), 1901 Census (Malvern), Tolliss.com