{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=February 2020}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Viscount Exmouth | honorific_suffix = | image = Henry Edward Pellew, 1922.jpg | caption = ''Henry Edward Pellew, 1922'' | birth_name = Henry Edward Pellew | birth_date = {{birth date|1828|04|26|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Canterbury]], Kent, United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|1923|02|04|1828|04|26|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]]<br />Washington, D.C., U.S. | education = [[Eton College]] | alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] | parents = [[George Pellew]]<br/>Frances Addington | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Eliza Constable Jay|5 October 1858|1869|reason=}} * {{marriage|Augusta Jay|14 May 1873||reason=}} }} | children = 4, including [[Charles Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth|Charles]] | relations = [[Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth]] (grandfather)<br/>[[Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth]] (grandfather) }} '''Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth''' (26 April 1828 – 4 February 1923) was a British [[Peerage of the United Kingdom|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. Although born and educated in Britain, he moved to America in 1873 shortly after his second marriage and lived there for the rest of his life, carrying out charitable works.
==Early life== Pellew was born on 26 April 1828 in [[Canterbury]], Kent.<ref name=Passport>U.S. Passport application, 1891.</ref> His father, [[George Pellew]], who was [[Dean of Norwich]], was the third son of [[Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth]], a British admiral who saw action in the [[American War of Independence]] and the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name=Times/><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Christopher D. |last=Hall|title=Pellew, Edward, first Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833)|date=May 2009 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/21808 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21808|access-date=23 November 2009}}</ref> Henry was his only son. His mother was Frances Addington, a daughter of [[Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth|Viscount Sidmouth]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Herald]]|title=New Yorker Is Heir To British Peerage |page=1|date=18 August 1922}}</ref>
Pellew was educated at [[Eton College]], before studying at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1850. Whilst at [[Cambridge University]], he won his "[[Blue (university sport)|Blue]]" by rowing for the [[CUBC|University Boat Club]] against [[OUBC|Oxford]] in [[the Boat Race]] in [[The Boat Race 1849 (December)|1849]].<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=PLW846HE|name=Pellew, Henry}}</ref>
==Career== He was one of the founders of [[Keble College, Oxford]] and served on the Council of the college from its foundation in 1870 until 1873.<ref name=Venn/> He was also a magistrate for the county of [[Middlesex]], serving on the boards of various charities, hospitals and schools in and around London.
Pellew carried on working for various good causes in America, as he had in Britain, even after his ninetieth birthday. He helped to organise the Bureau of Charities in New York, working with the future President [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref name=Times/><ref name=Venn/> He helped to set up coffee houses for poor people, a free lending library, and night shelters, as well as helping improve housing conditions. He was President of the [[Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor]] and of the St George Society, a British-American group in New York; he also belonged to the Society for Sanitary Reform and the School Commission. He helped with the plans for [[Washington National Cathedral]].<ref name=Times/>
===Peerage=== In August 1922, [[Edward Pellew, 5th Viscount Exmouth]], a distant cousin, died without descendants and his titles ([[Viscount Exmouth]] and two other titles earlier created for the 1st Viscount, namely Baron Exmouth and a [[baronetcy]]) passed to Pellew as the closest male relative. He attempted to renounce the peerage (the [[U.S. Constitution]] prohibits any "person holding any office of profit or trust under them" from "without the consent of the Congress, accept[ing] any . . . title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."<ref>U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9.</ref>) in favour of his son Charles Pellew, but was told by the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, D.C.|British Embassy in Washington]] that this was not possible. In any event, he preferred to remain known as "Mr Henry Edward Pellew" rather than use the title of Viscount.
==Personal life== On 5 October 1858 Pellew married Eliza Constable Jay in [[Bedford (town), New York|Bedford, New York]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Barber |first=Gertrude A. |date=1937 |title=Marriages Taken From the New York Evening Post, From Feb. 5, 1856 to Apr. 6, 1859, Volume 16 |location=New York |page=89}}</ref> Eliza was the daughter of Judge [[William Jay (jurist)|William Jay]] and Hannah Augusta ({{nee}} McVickar) Jay from New York and a granddaughter of [[John Jay]]. She was a descendant of the [[Van Cortlandt family|Van Cortlandt]], [[Livingston family|Livingston]], and [[Schuyler family|Schuyler families]].<ref name="1890Jay">{{cite news |title=JAY'S LIFE AND WRITINGS.; JOHN JAY. By GEORGE PELLEW. [American Statesmen Series.] Boston and New-York: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. 1890. THE CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS OF JOHN JAY. 1763-1781. Edited by HENRY P. JOHNSTON, A.M., Professor of History in the College of the City of New-York. Vol. I. New-York: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS. 1890. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1890/07/27/archives/jays-life-and-writings-john-jay-by-george-pellew-american-statesmen.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 July 1890}}</ref> They had three children:
* William Henry Edward George Pellew (1859–1892), who died "suddenly, from an accident", unmarried in New York City.<ref>{{cite news |title=DIED -- PELLEW |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1892/02/19/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 February 1892}}</ref> * [[Charles Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth]] (1863–1945),<ref name="1945Exmouth">{{cite news |title=VISCOUNT EXMOUTH, ONCE PROFESSOR HERE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/06/11/archives/viscount-exmouth-once-professor-here.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 June 1945}}</ref> a professor of chemistry at [[Columbia University]]; he married Margaret Walton Chandler, the only daughter of Dr. Charles T. Chandler, in 1896.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=the New York Times Company Special Cable To the New York |title=HON. ANNA PELLEW DEAD.; Was Daughter of Viscount Exmouth a Former New Yorker. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/01/14/archives/hon-anna-pellew-dead-was-daughter-of-viscount-exmouth-a-former-new.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 January 1928}}</ref> After her death in 1922, he married Mabel Gray, a daughter of Richard Gray of [[San Francisco]] and [[Queen's County, Ireland]], in 1923.<ref name="1923Engagement">{{cite news |title=NEXT LADY EXMOUTH WILL BE AMERICAN; Miss Mabel Gray Confirms Re- port of Engagement to Prof. Charles E. Pellew. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/11/archives/next-lady-exmouth-will-be-american-miss-mabel-gray-confirms-re-port.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 February 1923}}</ref><ref name="1949Viscountess">{{cite news |title=VISCOUNTESS EXMOUTH |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/03/31/archives/viscountess-exmouth.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=31 March 1949}}</ref> * Violet Lisa Mary Pellew (1869–1870), who died in infancy.
His first wife died in England in 1869 and, on 14 May 1873, he married her youngest sister, Augusta Jay, in [[Vienna]]. The marriage was not recognised as valid at that time in English law.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Married |page=5|date=5 June 1873}}</ref> In the same year (possibly because of this, suggested his obituary in ''[[The Times]]'')<ref name=Times/> he moved to New York City, and later to Washington, D.C. He became a naturalised citizen of the United States on 25 September 1877.<ref name=Passport/><ref name=Times/><ref name=Naturalization>Duplicate copy of the U.S. Naturalization Certificate of Henry Pellew, 1877.</ref> One daughter was born to this marriage:
* The Hon. Marion Jay Pellew (1878–1954).<ref>{{cite news |title=AUNT GETS ESTATE OF ANNA C. PELLEW; Daughter of Viscount Exmouth Left All to Relative Except $10,000 to a Friend. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1928/02/08/archives/aunt-gets-estate-of-anna-c-pellew-daughter-of-viscount-exmouth-left.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=8 February 1928}}</ref>
He died in Washington on 4 February 1923,<ref name=Times>{{cite news|work=[[The Times]]|title=Death of Lord Exmouth. American Citizen And Social Worker|page=12|date=6 February 1923}}</ref><ref name=Venn/> funeral services were held at St. John's Church on 7 February 1923,<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Died|page=19|date=6 February 1923}}</ref> and he was buried at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/48e.pdf |title=Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D.C. (Amphitheater) - Lot 48 East |website=oakhillcemeterydc.org |access-date=2022-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302053755/https://www.oakhillcemeterydc.org/app/themes/oakhill/assets/records/48e.pdf |archive-date=2022-03-02 |url-status=live}}</ref> A memorial plaque was erected in St. James Church in Christow, Devon. It states in part, "Kind, wise, and generous, he never forgot his duty to his neighbour, and wherever he lived, he made the community happier and better for his presence and his influence."
He was succeeded in his titles by his son, [[Charles Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth|Charles Pellew]].<ref name="LordExmouthObit1923">{{cite news |title=H. E. PELLEW DEAD; VISCOUNT EXMOUTH; Philanthropist Who Was Raised to Peerage Last August Dies in Washington at 94-. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/02/05/archives/h-e-pellei-dead-viscount-exmouth-philanthropist-who-was-raised-to.html |access-date=13 July 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 February 1923}}</ref>
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image=[[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|130px|centre]][[File:Arms of the Viscount Exmouth.svg|centre|150px]] |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. |crest = Upon the waves of the sea the wreck of the Dutton East Indianman upon a rocky shore off Plymouth garrison 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) <ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1838}}</ref>}}
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