Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-18
WASHINGTON MAN
NOW BRITISH PEER
Death Of Viscount Of Exmouth
Passes Title to Henry
Edward PeIIew
HEIR IS COLUMBIA TUTOR

New York. Aug. 1s.-Through tn,
death in England yesterday Of the Wis
count of Exmouth after n surgical on.
Grafton the title. which has been ar
INDUSTRIOUS one in the history Of the
royal navy. passes TO Henry Edward
Pellew, of Washington, d. c.. who is
ninety four years old and who for fifty
years has been an American citizen.
His son. who will become heir to the
neerage and title on the death Of his
father: is Charles Ernest Pellew, o.
New York, who for many years has
been professor Of chemistry in Columbia
! University.
Henry Edward Pellew, of Washing.
ton, is the reat-uncle of the viscount
who died yesterday. Although the se-
nior Mr.. Pellew was born in Canter-
bury, England, in 1898. he moved to
New York in 1873 and became an
American citizen. In 1858 he married
Miss Eliza jay, daughter of Judge Will
( liam Jay. of this city. She died in 1865
and in 1873 Mr.. Pellew married her sis
ter, Augusta Jay. The first wife was
the mother OF Prof. Pellew, who was
born IN London in 1868.
Active I'm Social Work
During, his New York City residence
Henry Edward Pellew, who becomes
Lord EXmouth. was active in organizing
the Bureau of Charities in association
with Abram S. Hewitt and Theodore
Roosevelt, Sr., father of President
Roosevelt. He was prominent also in
tenement house reform and In organ
izing free circulating libraries. coffee
houses and night refugees. He was pres
proving the Condition of the Poor, the
Sanitary Reform Association and st.
Georges Society.
Since 1SSS the new Lord Exmouth
has lived in Washington. bur he passed
the summers usually at his country
home in Sharon. Conn. In Washington
he has taken a deep interest in work
for the Negroes, in the building of'the
Washington Protestant Episcopal Ca.
thedral and in all the ecclesiastical af-
fairs Of that diocese. He is member
Of the Century and University Clubs of
New York and Of tho Metropolitan
the Hon. and Rev. George Pellew, 3D.,
D"un Of Norwich, and his mother was
Frances Addington, daughter Of the
Ni>Count Sidmouth.
Son TO Settle Estate
When seen at his home last night
Prof. Pellcw, heir to the title, said
that because of his fathers advanced
age the duty Of going to England to
participate in the settlement of the es-
tate probably would devolve upon him
self. His fathers American citizenship
would in no way bar him, Prof. Pei
lew said, from the succession. The elder
Pellew. now Lord EXmouth. instead of
going to sharon. as has been his GUS
tom has remained quietly this summer
in his home in the national capital.
Prof. Pellew was graduated from Co.
lumbia in 1854 and two years later
married Miss Margaret w. Chandler, OF
this city, who died last May. No son
was born Of the union, but daughter,
Anna, now is travelling in the West:
Prof. Pellew IS the author of several
manuals of chemistry and Is member
Of the American Federation Of Arts,
the American Chemical Society and a
fellow Of the New York Acad emy of
Sciences. He is n member of the Arts
Club of Washington and of the Century
Of New York. In the Spanish Amer
lean War he served as captain in the
signal cOrDS