Viscount Exmouth

Viscount Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

History

The title was created in 1816 for the prominent naval officer Edward Pellew, 1st Baron Exmouth. 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 in Parliament. On the death in 1922 of the second Viscount's great-grandson, the fifth Viscount, this line of the family failed. He was succeeded by his 94-year-old first cousin twice removed, the sixth Viscount. He was the son of the Very Reverend and Hon. George Pellew, Dean of Norwich, third son of the first Viscount. Partly due to having become a U.S. citizen, and partly due to his advanced age, the sixth Viscount did not use his title for the brief period he held it, nor did he claim his seat in the House of Lords. Only six months after succeeding to his titles, the sixth Viscount died. He was succeeded by his son, the seventh Viscount, a naturalised U.S. citizen and professor of chemistry. Having succeeded to the peerage, the seventh Viscount returned to England in 1923 and again became a British subject, taking his seat in the House of Lords in 1931. Upon his death without any surviving issue in 1945, this line of the family also failed.

The title then passed to the seventh Viscount's second cousin, the eighth Viscount. He was the grandson of the Reverend and Hon. Edward Pellew, fourth son of the first Viscount. His son, the ninth Viscount, married María Luisa de Urquijo y Losada, Marquesa de Olías, a title of Spanish nobility that was created by King Philip IV in 1652.[1] They were succeeded in their respective titles by their son, Paul Pellew, as 10th Viscount Exmouth and 9th Marquess of Olías.

The family seat was Canonteign House, near Exeter in Devon.

Baron Exmouth (1814)

Viscount Exmouth (1816)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. Edward Francis Pellew (born 1978).

Male-line family tree
Male-line family tree, Viscounts Exmouth.
Edward Pellew
1st Viscount Exmouth
1757–1833
Pownoll Pellew
2nd Viscount Exmouth
1786–1833		Admiral Sir
Fleetwood Pellew
1789–1861		Very Rev. Hon.
George Pellew
1793–1866		Rev. Hon.
Edward Pellew
1799–1869
Edward Pellew
3rd Viscount Exmouth
1811–1876		Hon.
Percy Pellew
1814–1848		Hon.
Pownoll Pellew
1823–1851		Hon.
Fleetwood Pellew
1830–1866		Hon.
Barrington Pellew
1833–1858		Thomas Pellew
1818–1819		Henry Pellew
6th Viscount Exmouth
1828–1923		Commander
Pownoll Pellew
1837–1872
Edward Pellew
4th Viscount Exmouth
1861–1899		William "George" Pellew
1859 – 1892		Charles Pellew
7th Viscount Exmouth
1863–1945		Edward Pellew
8th Viscount Exmouth
1868–1951
Edward Pellew
5th Viscount Exmouth
1890–1922		Pownoll Pellew
9th Viscount Exmouth
1908–1970
Paul Pellew
10th Viscount Exmouth
born 1940
Hon.
Edward Pellew
born 1978

Line of succession
  • Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833)
    • Rev. Hon. Edward William Pellew (1799–1869)
      • Pownoll William Pellew (1837–1872)
        • Edward Irving Pownoll Pellew, 8th Viscount Exmouth (1868–1951)
          • Pownoll Irving Edward Pellew, 9th Viscount Exmouth (1908–1970)
      • Fleetwood Hugo Pellew (1838–1906)
        • Fleetwood Hugo Pellew (1871–1961)
          • Anthony Pownoll Pellew (1911–1992)
            • (4) Mark Edward Pellew (born 1942)
              • (5) Adam Lee Pellew (born 1966)
              • (6) Dominic Stephen Pellew (born 1968)
            • (7) Robert Anthony Pellew (born 1945)
              • (8) Toby James Pownoll Pellew (born 1982)
            • (9) Nicholas Charles Pellew (born 1959)
              • (10) Christopher Anthony Lloyd Pellew (born 1992)
            • (11) Philip Esmond Pellew (born 1962)
          • Myles Addington Pellew (1919–2017)
            • (12) Simon Du Pre Pellew (born 1959)
              • (13) Dominic Pellew (born 1997)
          • (14) Timothy Winthrop Pellew (born 1921)
            • (15) Fleetwood Timothy Pellew (born 1952)
            • (16) Adrian Harold Pellew (born 1954)
              • (17) Adam Timothy Edmund Pellew (born 2000)
            • (18) Owen Simon Pellew (born 1958)
            • (19) Colin David Pellew (born 1961)

Arms
Coat of arms of Viscount Exmouth
Crest
Upon the waves of the sea the wreck of the Dutton East Indianman upon a rocky shore off Plymouth garrison all Proper.
Escutcheon
Gules a lion passant guardant in chief two chaplets of laurel Or on a chief of augmentation wavy a representation of Algiers with a British Man-of-War before it all Proper.
Supporters
Dexter a lion rampant guardant Or navally crowned Azure resting the dexter paw upon a decrescent Argent, sinister a male figure representing slavery trowsers Argent striped Azure the upper part of the body naked holding in the dexter hand broken chains Proper the sinister arm elevated and holding a cross Or.
Motto
Deo Adjuvante (over the crest), Algiers (under the shield) [2]

References
  1. Antonio Luque García (2005). Grandezas de España y títulos nobiliarios (in Spanish). Ministerio de Justicia. p. 258. ISBN 978-84-7787-825-4. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. Burke's Peerage. 1838.

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