Viscount Exmouth

Viscount Exmouth, of Canonteign in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It 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 created 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.

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• Barons Exmouth 1814
• Viscounts Exmouth 1816
• References

He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Viscount, who represented Launceston in Parliament. On the death of the second Viscount's great-grandson, the fifth Viscount, in 1922, 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 Very Reverend Hon. George Pellew, Dean of Norwich, third son of the first Viscount. On the death of his son, the seventh Viscount, this line also failed.

The title then passed to the seventh Viscount's second cousin, the eighth Viscount. He was the grandson of Reverend the Hon. Edward Pellew, fourth son of the first Viscount. His son, the ninth Viscount, married Maria Luisa Urquijoy y Losada, Marquesa de Olias, a title created by Philip IV in the Peerage of Spain in 1652. As of 2010, they were both succeeded by their son, the tenth and present Viscount.

The family seat was Canonteign House, near Exeter, Devon.