Charles Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth

Charles Ernest Pellew, 7th Viscount Exmouth (11 March 1863 – 7 June 1945) was a British peer and a naturalized United States citizen who inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth at the age of 60 from his father, and held the title for 22 years before his own death. Although born and educated in England, he moved to America in 1873 with his father and step-mother. After inheriting his father's title he moved back to England where he lived the rest of his life.

Charles Pellew was born on 11 March 1863 in London, England. His father, Henry Pellew, was the grandson of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, a British admiral who saw action in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars. Charles was Henry Pellew's second son, his older brother being the writer George Pellew. His mother was Eliza Jay, the daughter of a judge from New York and a descendant of John Jay, the Van Cortlandt family, the Livingston family, and the Schuyler family. His step-mother was Augusta Jay - his mother's sister. The family came to the United States in 1873, and Charles Pellew, being a minor at the time of his father's naturalization in 1877, then automatically became a United States citizen upon attaining the age of 21. He married Miss Margaret W. Chandler, who was the daughter of Dr. Charles T. Chandler, a Dean of Columbia College, on 29 April 1886 at St. Thomas's Church in New York. On 18 Feb 1892 his older brother, George Pellew, died from a concussion when he fell down a flight of stone stairs while walking in New York City. An inflammation of the eyes had temporarily caused him to be partially blind.

Pellew graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1884. From 1886 until 1897 he was a professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. His appointment to this post, by his father-in-law, Dr. Charles Chandler, who was the Dean of the College of Mines, was not without some controversy. During the same time period he became the president of the Berkshire Industrial Farm in Canaan Four Corners, New York, but he resigned this position shortly after being appointed a chemistry professor at Columbia College where he remained until 1911. His father had previously been president of the farm.

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