Background
He was third son of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, and was born at Flushing, Cornwall in April 1793.
theologian churchman Dean of Norwich
He was third son of Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, and was born at Flushing, Cornwall in April 1793.
He was educated at Eton College from 1808 to 1811, and admitted as gentleman-commoner at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 20 March 1812, graduating Bachelor of Arts 1815, Master of Arts
1818, and Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Divinity in November 1828. With family connections, his church preferment was rapid. In February 1819 he became, by the gift of the lord chancellor, vicar of Nazeing, Essex.
In November 1820 he was advanced by the same patron to the vicarage of Sutton-in-the-Forest, or Sutton Galtries, Yorkshire.
He subsequently was appointed seventh canon in Canterbury Cathedral (14 November 1822 to 1828), rector of Saint George-the-Martyr, Canterbury (1827-1828), prebendary of Osbaldwick at York Cathedral (15 February 1824 to September 1828), and prebendary of Wistow there (18 September 1828 to 1852). He became rector of Street Dionis Backchurch, London (October 1828 to 1852), dean of Norwich 1828, and rector of Great Chart, Kent, 1852.
And he held the last two preferments until his death. As dean of Norwich he had a seat in convocation, where he took an active part in the debates, as a moderate.
Pellew died at the rectory, Great Chart, on 13 October 1866, and the east window of the church was afterwards filled with stained glass in his memory.
His widow died at Speen Hill House, Newbury, Berkshire, on 27 February 1870.