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See also:EXMOUTH, See also:EDWARD PELLEW, 1ST See also:VISCOUNT (1757-1833) , See also:English See also:admiral, was descended from a See also:family which came originally from See also:Normandy, but had for many centuries been settled in the See also:west of See also:Cornwall. He was See also:born at See also:Dover, on the loth of See also:April 1757. At the See also:age of thirteen he entered the See also:navy. and even then his smartness and activity, his feats of daring, and his spirit of resolute See also:independence awakened remark, and pointed him out as one specially fitted to distinguish himself in his profession. He had, however, no opportunity of active service till 1976, when, at the See also:battle of See also:Lake See also:Champlain, his gallantry, promptitude and skill, not only saved the " See also:Carleton "—whose command had devolved upon him during the progress of the battle—from imminent danger, but enabled her to take a prominent See also:part in sinking two of the enemy's See also:ships. For his services on this occasion he obtained a See also:lieutenant's See also:commission, and the command of the See also:schooner in which he had so bravely done his See also:duty. The following See also:year, in command of a See also:brigade of See also:seamen, he shared in the hardships and perils of the See also:American See also:campaign of See also:General See also:Burgoyne. In 1782, in command of the " See also:Pelican," he attacked three See also:French privateers inside the Ile de Batz, and compelled them to run themselves on chore—a feat for which he was rewarded by the See also:rank of See also:post-See also:captain. On the outbreak of the French See also:War in 1793, he was appointed to the " Nymphe," a See also:frigate of 36 guns; and, notwithstanding that for the See also:sake of expedition she was manned chiefly by Cornish miners, he captured, after a desperate conflict, the French frigate " La Cleopatre," a See also:vessel of equal strength. For this See also:act he obtained the See also:honour of See also:knighthood. In 1794 he received the command of the " See also:Arethusa " (38), and in a fight with the French frigate See also:squadron off the Ile de Batz he compelled the " See also:Pomona " (44) to surrender. The same year the western squadron was increased and its command divided, the second squadron being given to See also:Sir Edward Pellew in the " Indefatigable" (44). While in command of this squadron he, on several occasions, performed acts of See also:great See also:personal daring; and for his bravery in boarding the wrecked transport " Dutton," and his promptitude and See also:resolution in adopting See also:measures so as to See also:save the lives of all on See also:board, he was in 1796 created a See also:baronet. In 1798 he joined the channel See also:fleet, and in command of the " Impetueux " (74) took part in several actions with great distinction. In 1802 Sir Edward Pellew was elected member of See also:parliament for See also:Dunstable, and during the See also:time that he sat in the See also:Commons he was a strenuous supporter of See also:Pitt. In 1804 he was made See also:rear-admiral of the See also:blue, and appointed commanderin-See also:chief in See also:India, where, by his vigilance and rapidity of See also:movement, he entirely cleared the seas of French cruisers, and secured See also:complete See also:protection to English See also:commerce. He returned to See also:England in 1809, and in 1810 was appointed See also:commander-in-chief in the See also:North See also:Sea, and in 1811 commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. In 1814 he was created See also:Baron Exmouth of Canonteign, and in the following year was made K.C.B., and a little later G.C.B. When the See also:dey of See also:Algiers, in 1816, violated the treaty for the abolition of See also:slavery, Exmouth was directed to attack the See also:town. Accordingly, on the 26th of See also:August, he engaged theAlgerine See also:battery and fleet, and after a severe See also:action of nine See also:hours'duration, he set on See also:fire the See also:arsenal and every vessel of the enemy's fleet, and shattered the sea defences into ruins. At the See also:close of the action the dey apologized for his conduct, and agreed to a renewal of the treaty, at the same time delivering up over three thousand persons of various nationalities who had been Algerine slaves. For this splendid victory Exmouth was advanced to the dignity of viscount. Shortly before his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 23rd of See also:January 1833, he was made See also:vice-admiral.
He had married Susan (d. 1837), daughter of See also: His eldest son, Pownoll See also:Bastard Pellew (1786-1833), became 2nd Viscount Exmouth, and his descendant, Edward Addington Hargreaves Pellew (b. 1890), became the 5th viscount in 1899.
Exmouth's second son, Sir See also:Fleetwood See also:Broughton See also:Reynolds Pellew (1789-1861), was like his See also:father an admiral. The third son was See also:George Pellew (1793-1866), author and divine, who married 'Frances (d. 1870), daughter of the See also:prime See also:minister, See also:Lord See also:Sidmouth, and wrote his father-in-See also:law's See also:life (The Life and See also:Correspondence of See also: Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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