Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (April 9, 1757 – January 23, 1833) was a British naval officer. He fought during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary, and the Napoleonic Wars.

Fictional appearances

Pellew is featured as the Captain of Indefatigable in some of C. S. Forester's fictional Horatio Hornblower novels; in the television adaptations, as portrayed by Robert Lindsay, he is given a more prominent role.

Related Topics:
Indefatigable - C. S. Forester - Horatio Hornblower - Television adaptations - Robert Lindsay

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As a midshipman, he appears in the novel Jack Absolute by C. C. Humphreys.

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