Chemist/Mining Engineer
Centurion, 1891–1945
Born 11 March 1863 in London, England
Died 7 June 1945 in Surrey, England
Buried St James Churchyard
, Christow, Devon, England
Proposed by J. Howard Van Amringe and George W. Dillaway
Elected 3 October 1891 at age twenty-eight
Century Memorial
Charles Ernest Pellew, 7th Viscount of Exmouth. [Born] 1863. Chemist.
Fifty-four years a Centurion; the longest membership on this memorial roll [of 1945 decedents]. The first Viscount Exmouth, then Edward Pellew, got his baptism of fire in the Battle of Lake Champlain during the American Revolution and surrendered with Burgoyne at Saratoga. Our Exmouth, then Professor Pellew, in 1898, chose to fight in Cuba rather than in South Africa, and he served his country well as an officer and as a chemist in the first World War. Professor Pellew’s father inherited the title in 1922, and upon his death-bed requested his son to become a British subject and to take his seat in the House of Lords, which the son did. At Columbia University where he taught chemistry Pellew is remembered as the most generous of men, generous of his time and of his goods, but above all generous in the most difficult of ways, that of rejoicing sincerely upon the advancement of those, including his students, who passed him on the ladder of promotion.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials