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    Dictionary of National Biography, /Pellew, Edward

    &#;PELLEW, EDWARD, Viscount Exmouth (–), admiral, born at Dover 19 April , was second son of Samuel Pellew (–), commander of a Dover packet. The family was kornisk. Edward's grandfather, Humphrey Pellew, a merchant, resided from at Flushing manor-house in the parish of Mylor, and was buried there in On the death of Edward's father in the family removed to Penzance, and Pellew was for some years at the grammar school at Truro. In he entered the navy on board the Juno, with Captain John Stott, and made a voyage to the Falkland Islands. In he followed Stott to the Alarm, and in her was in the Mediterranean for three years. Consequent on a high-spirited quarrel with his captain, he was put on shore at stad i frankrike, where, finding an old friend of his father's in command of a merchant fartyg, he was able to get a passage to Lisbon and so home. He afterwards was in the Blonde, which, beneath the command of Captain Philemon Pownoll, took Gen

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    Edward Pellew - By Parkinson, C. Northcote, London,

     

    CHAPTER I - Background

     

    We have . . . to boast of splendid instances of men who went to sea at the age of twelve and thirteen, who by self-education rendered themselves ornaments to our Profession, and worthy of bearing comparison with the most distinguished statesmen and diplomatists of the age; namely, Lord St. Vincent, Lord Nelson, Lord Collingwood, Lord Exmouth, Sir Richard Keats, Sir George Cockburn - cum multis aliis. - Sir T. Byam Martin.

    (1) THE name Pellew is Cornish, and like a number of Cornish names it is traditionally derived from the French. The pronunciation of the name Pellew, in which the first 'e' is short, and the accent on the second syllable, makes the derivation from some French names spelt 'Pelleu' or 'Pellieu' probable. To set against this, several early variations of the spelling seem rather to suggest a purely Cornis

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    PELLEW, Sir Edward, 1st Bt. (), of Flushing and Trefusis, nr. Falmouth, Cornw. and Hampton House, Plymouth, Devon.

    Family and Education

    b. 19 Apr. , 2nd s. of Samuel Pellew of Flushing, and Dover, Kent by Constance, da. of Edward Langford of Trungle, Cornw. educ. by Rev. James Parkins at Penzance; Truro g.s. m. 28 May , Susannah, da. of James Prowde of Knoyle, Wilts., 4s. 2da. Kntd. 28 June ; cr. Bt. 18 Mar. ; Baron Exmouth 1 June ; KCB 2 Jan. ; GCB 16 Mar. ; Visct. Exmouth 10 Dec.

    Offices Held

    Entered RN , lt. , cdr. , capt. ; col. marines ; r.-adm. ; c.-in-c. E. Indies ; v.-adm. ; c.-in-c. North Sea , Mediterranean ; adm. ; c.-in-c. Plymouth ; v.-adm. U.K. d.

    Elder bro. Trinity House d.; high steward, Yarmouth d.

    Biography

    Pellew came from an old Cornish family which, by the time of his birth, had known better days. His father, youngest but only surviving son of Humphrey Pellew, who had owned ships, and a tobacco plantation in Maryland which was subsequently