Background
Pellew, Henry Edward was born on April 26, 1828 in Canterbury, England. Son of Honorable and Review George (Doctor of Divinity, dean of Norwich) and Frances Addington (daughter Viscount Sidmouth) P.
Pellew, Henry Edward was born on April 26, 1828 in Canterbury, England. Son of Honorable and Review George (Doctor of Divinity, dean of Norwich) and Frances Addington (daughter Viscount Sidmouth) P.
Master of Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1853. Master of Arts, Oxford, 1870.
Judge William Jay. 1858 (died 1868). 2d, Augusta Jay (sister of 1st wife), 1873. Father of Charles Ernest P. Was one of the founders of Keble College, Oxford, and member of council.
Justice of the Peace for Middlesex.
Was on executive boards Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, Feltham Industrial School, Westminster Brldewell and others and identifled with various London hospitals and charities. Came to the United States, 1873.
Organized bureau of Charities in New York in association with Theodore Roosevelt, Senior A. South. Hewitt and others
Active in organizing night refuges, free circulating library, coffee houses, the first tenement house reform movement and the erection of improved dwellings. Commissioner of public schools.
President Society for Improving Condition of Poor, Sanitary Reform, Saint George’s and other societies Has resided in Washington, District of Columbia, since 1888, where he is interested in work among the Negroes, in the formation of the Washington P.E. Diocese and in aiding the building of the Washington Cathedral. Homes: Washington, District of Columbia, and Sharon, Connecticut
Member of council.
Married Eliza, daughter