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CHAPTER I - Background

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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 Cornish. 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 Marseilles, where, finding an old friend of his father's in command of a merchant ship, he was able to get a passage to Lisbon and so home. He afterwards was in the Blonde, which, under the command of Captain Philemon Pownoll, took General Burgoyne to America in the spring of In October Pellew, together with another midshipman, Brown, was detached, under Lieutenant Dacres, for service in the Carleton tender on Lake Champlain. In a severe action on the 11th Dacres and Brown were both severely wounded, and the command devolved on P

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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 lost, went to sea in the Falmouth packet service and later commanded a packet on the Dover station. He died when Edward was eight. After running away from school to escape a flogging, Pellew gained entry to the navy through the influence of the 2nd Viscount Falmouth, on whom his family had a claim.