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Show AUCl GETS ENGLISH TITLE Sixth Viscount Lives in Washington to Aid Negroes' Condition LONDON, August is--Tlscounl Exmouth died In n London nurMing home Wednesday after an operation. His title will revei-t to his cousin, Henry' Hen-ry' Edw.ir.l pellev,- of Y"ashlngton. .Mr. Pellew has made his homo In Washington Wash-ington since 1888. IN CHARITY WORK (Note. Edward Addlntrton H.ir-greaves H.ir-greaves Pellew, fifth viscount of Ex-mouth, Ex-mouth, who was brn in 1 v'i.i. as a flying officer In the royal flyin? corps and wa.s formorh a lieutenant in the royal Berks regiment. His cousin, cou-sin, on whom the title will fall, was born In England in 182S. the son of the Honorable and Rev George and Frances Addington. He left for th-United th-United States In 1x7.'; fthere, in association associ-ation with Theodore Roosevelt, A. S. Hewitt and others, he organized tlr bureau of charities in Xew York. He became Interested also in tenement house reform and ffr a time was pros Iclcnt of the Society for improving the Condtlon of the Poor. Mr. Pellew has made his home In Washington since 1888. In?cre:itlng himself in work among the negroes Mr. Pellew In 1858 married Eliza, daughter of Judge William Jay, She died in 186R and In 1873 he married her sister Augusta Ja.v . From the first union was born In London In 1S63 Charles Ernest Pel-lew, Pel-lew, who Is now an eminent chemist of Xew York, and who became heir apparent ap-parent to the title of Viscount Ex-mouth Ex-mouth TEACHES AT COLUMB1 xew york. August is. Charles! Ernest Pellew, for many years professor profes-sor of chemistry In Columbia university univer-sity and u resident of this city. Is the onl) son of Henry Edward Pellew of Washington, D. C who became Lord Exmouth through tho death In England Eng-land of his great nephew, the Viscount Vis-count of Exmouth. Professor pellrw, heir apparent to the title, said that because of his father s advanced age the duty of going go-ing to England to participate in the settlement of the estate probably will devolve upon himself. His father's American citizenship would In no way bar him from the succession, Professor Profes-sor Pellew said The Columbia instructor was graduated grad-uated from that university In 18S4, and two years later married Mile Margaret W. Chandler of this city, who died lost May Xo son was born of the union, but a daughter, Anna, now Is traveling in the west. 00 |