Note.—In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for which Venice was so celebrated.
PELLEGRINI, Carlo (son of a land owner). b. Capua, Italy March 1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the fashion; fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno and at Capua 1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures of statesmen and other public characters, these appeared in Vanity Fair weekly from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first few caricatures were signed Singe, but all the rest Ape; executed a statuette in red plaster of Robert Lowe standing on a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in oils of sir Edwin Watkin, sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends; exhibited at the R.A. 1878, and several times at the Grosvenor gallery; gave his name to a cigarette. d. 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 22 Jany. 1889. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal Green. Vanity Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp. 55, 67, also 27 April 1889 p. 309 portrait; Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p. 313 portrait; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 11 portrait.
PELLEW, Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds (2 son of 1 viscount Exmouth 1757–1833). b. 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799, commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct. 1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810 and of Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug. 1818, placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval A.D.C. to the queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief on the East India and China stations 6 Dec. 1852, was recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny on board the Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at Hongkong Sept. 1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858. d. Marseilles 28 July 1861.
PELLEW, George (brother of preceding). b. Flushing, Cornwall 3 April 1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb. 1819; V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh canon in Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St. George-the-Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary of York 1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52; dean of Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1852 to death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on the means of rendering cathedral churches most conducive to the efficiency of the established church 1837; The life and correspondence of H. Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols. 1847; Sermons on many of the leading doctrines and duties taught by the church of England, 2 vols. 1848. d. Great Chart rectory 13 Oct. 1866. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 441, iii 1307 (1874–82); Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 697; Church of England photographic portrait gallery 1859, portrait 46.
PELLY, Sir Henry Carstairs, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry Pelly, 2 baronet 1809–64). b. Balls park, near Hertford 23 April 1844; succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2 Sept. 1862, lieut. 26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct. 1872, retired 25 June 1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May 1875 to death; M.P. Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 4 June 1877.
PELLY, Henry Joseph (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil service 1786–1852). b. 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11 July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859; served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through Hereford 9 Dec. d. Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec. 1891. Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p. 8.
PELLY, Sir John Henry 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly of Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818). b. 31 March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806, deputy governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring parties under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west passage and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks on the map the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait; elder brother of the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52; a director of the Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor 1839–41, governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 527–8 (1852); I.L.N. xxi 130, 187 (1852).
PELLY, Sir Lewis (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). b. Hyde house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838–40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the resident at the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general John Jacob in the Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at Teheran 1859, chargé d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special mission through Afghanistan and Baluchistan 1860; political agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861; political resident on the Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an anti-slavery mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3; chief comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March 1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858; Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play of Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols. 1879. d. Falmouth 22 April 1892. Graphic xviii 508 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p. 543 portrait; Pictorial World 30 April 1892 p. 3 portrait.
PELLY, Saville Marriott (brother of preceding). b. 28 March 1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841; served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8; served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee, Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. d. Woodstock house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.
PEMBERTON, Christopher Peach (elder son of Christopher Robert Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). b. May 1838; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat. By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton; killed by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. bur. in churchyard of Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p. 336 portrait, 10 Jany. 1874 p. 44, view of monument; Times 10 Sept 1870 p. 6, 11 Oct p. 6, 2 Dec. p. 7, 5 Dec. p. 11.