Viscount Exmouth
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...
. It was created in 1816 for the prominent naval commander Edward Pellew, 1st Baron Exmouth
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary, and the Napoleonic Wars...
. He had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 18 March 1796 for rescuing the crew of the East Indiaman Dutton. After a succession of commands culminating as Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet he was created Baron Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1814. He was created a Viscount, with the same designation, for the successful Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 which secured the release of the 1,000 Christian slaves in the city.
He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Viscount, who represented Launceston
Launceston (UK Parliament constituency)
Launceston, also known at some periods as Dunheved, was a parliamentary constituency in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the British House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, and one member from 1832 until 1918...
in Parliament. On the death in 1922 of his great-great-grandson, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed. He was succeeded by his ninety-four year old first cousin twice removed, the sixth Viscount
Henry Pellew
Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth was a British peer and a naturalised United States citizen who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of 94 from a cousin, and held the title for less than a year before his own death...
. He was the son of the Very Reverend Hon. George Pellew
George Pellew
George Pellew was an English churchman and theologian, Dean of Norwich from 1828.-Life:He was third son of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, and was born at Flushing, Cornwall in April 1793. He was educated at Eton College from 1808 to 1811, and admitted as gentleman-commoner at Corpus Christi...
, Dean of Norwich
Dean of Norwich
The Dean of Norwich is the head of the Chapter of Norwich Cathedral in Norwich, England. The current Dean is the Very Revd Graham Charles Morell Smith.*1538-1539 William Castleton, first dean*1539-1554 John Salisbury*1554-1557 John Christopherson...
, third son of the first Viscount. On the death of his son, the seventh Viscount, this line also failed.
The title then passed to the seventh Viscount's second cousin, the eighth Viscount. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. Edward Pellew, fourth son of the first Viscount. His son, the ninth Viscount, married Maria Luisa Urquijoy y Losada, Marquesa de Olias, a title created by Philip IV
Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal until 1640...
in the Peerage of Spain
Spanish nobility
Spanish nobles are persons who possess the legal status of hereditary nobility according to the laws and traditions of the Spanish monarchy. A system of titles and honours of Spain and of the former kingdoms that constitute it comprise the Spanish nobility...
in 1652. They were both succeeded by their son, the tenth and present Viscount.
Viscounts Exmouth (1816)
- Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount ExmouthEdward Pellew, 1st Viscount ExmouthAdmiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary, and the Napoleonic Wars...
(1757–1833) - Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount ExmouthPownoll Pellew, 2nd Viscount ExmouthPownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth was an English peer and officer of the Royal Navy. He was the eldest son of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth. Like his father, and his younger brother Fleetwood Pellew, he served in the Royal Navy and attained the rank of Post Captain in 1806...
(1786–1833) - Edward Pellew, 3rd Viscount ExmouthEdward Pellew, 3rd Viscount ExmouthEdward Pellew, 3rd Viscount Exmouth was born on 14 February 1811. He was the eldest son of Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth. His father died in the same year as his grandfather and he acceded to the title in December 1833....
(1811–1876) - Edward Fleetwood John Pellew, 4th Viscount ExmouthEdward Pellew, 4th Viscount ExmouthEdward Fleetwood John Pellew, 4th Viscount Exmouth DL JP , was an English nobleman. He was the son of Fleetwood John Pellew and Emily Sarah Ferguson.On 3 June 1884 he married Edith Hargreaves...
(1861–1899) - Edward Addington Hargreaves Pellew, 5th Viscount Exmouth (1890–1922)
- Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount ExmouthHenry PellewHenry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth was a British peer and a naturalised United States citizen who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of 94 from a cousin, and held the title for less than a year before his own death...
(1828–1923) - Charles Ernest Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth (1863–1945)
- Edward Irving Pownoll Pellew, 8th Viscount Exmouth (1868–1951)
- Pownoll Irving Edward Pellew, 9th Viscount Exmouth (1908–1970)
- Paul Edward Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth (b. 1940)
The heir apparent
Heir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
is the present holder's son Hon. Edward Francis Pellew (b. 1978)