{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom peerage}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[Image:Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth by James Northcote.jpg|230px|thumb|Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth]] '''Viscount Exmouth''', of Canonteign in the County of Devon, is a title in the peerage of the United Kingdom.
==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 advanced as 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 Hon. and Very Revd 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 Hon. and Revd 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 created by King Philip IV in 1652.<ref name="García2005">{{cite book|author=Antonio Luque García|title=Grandezas de España y títulos nobiliarios|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7H4S5SNIQbcC&pg=PA258|access-date=9 April 2017|year=2005|publisher=Ministerio de Justicia|language=es|isbn=978-84-7787-825-4|page=258}}</ref> 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.
==Pellew baronets (1796)== *Edward Pellew, 1st Baronet (1757–1833) (created '''Baron Exmouth''' in 1814)
===Baron Exmouth (1814)=== *Edward Pellew, 1st Baron Exmouth (1757–1833) (created '''Viscount Exmouth''' in 1816)
===Viscount Exmouth (1816)=== *Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833) *Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth (1786–1833) *Edward Pellew, 3rd Viscount Exmouth (1811–1876) *Edward Fleetwood John Pellew, 4th Viscount Exmouth (1861–1899) *Edward Addington Hargreaves Pellew, 5th Viscount Exmouth (1890–1922) *Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth (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 Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth (born 1940)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. Edward Francis Pellew (born 1978).
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===Line of succession=== {{tree list}} * 15px ''Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757–1833)'' ** 15px ''Pownoll Bastard Pellew, 2nd Viscount Exmouth (1786–1833)'' *** 15px ''Edward Pellew, 3rd Viscount Exmouth (1811–1876)'' ***''Hon. Fleetwood John Pellew (1830–1866)'' **** 15px ''Edward Fleetwood John Pellew, 4th Viscount Exmouth (1861–1899)'' ***** 15px ''Edward Addington Hargreaves Pellew, 5th Viscount Exmouth (1890–1922)'' ** ''Very Rev. Hon. George Pellew (1793–1866)'' *** 15px ''Henry Edward Pellew, 6th Viscount Exmouth (1828–1923)'' **** 15px ''Charles Ernest Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth (1863–1945)'' ** ''Rev. Hon. Edward William Pellew (1799–1869)'' *** ''Cdr. Pownoll William Pellew (1837–1872)'' **** 15px ''Edward Irving Pownoll Pellew, 8th Viscount Exmouth (1868–1951)'' ***** 15px ''Pownoll Irving Edward Pellew, 9th Viscount Exmouth (1908–1970)'' ****** 15px '''Paul Edward Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth''' (born 1940) ******* '''(1)''' ''Hon.'' Edward Francis Pellew (born 1978) ******* '''(2)''' ''Hon.'' Alexander Paul Pellew (born 1978) ****** '''(3)''' ''Hon.'' Peter Irving Pellew (born 1942) *** ''Fleetwood Hugo Pellew (1838–1906)'' **** ''Fleetwood Hugo Pellew (1871–1961)'' ***** ''Cdr. 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) {{tree list/end}}
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image=130px|centrecentre|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'' (below the shield) <ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage & Baronetage |date=1838}}</ref>}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
===Sources=== *{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of Courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/358 | location=London |publisher=Dean & Son|page=358}} *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
==External links== *{{Hansard-contribs | mr-paul-pellew | Paul Edward Pellew, 10th Viscount Exmouth }} {{Extant British viscountcies}}
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