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Viscount Exmouth Charles E. (Charles Ernest) Pellew
1863–1945
A British-born chemist, teacher, and later Viscount Exmouth, he wrote practical works that brought the science of dyes and chemistry within reach of working students and professionals. His life crossed two worlds, from aristocratic Britain to academic and industrial America.
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Dyes and dyeing
by Viscount Exmouth Charles E. (Charles Ernest) Pellew
About the author
Born in England in 1863, Charles Ernest Pellew moved to the United States as a boy and built his career there as a chemist and teacher. He studied at Columbia School of Mines, later taught chemistry at institutions including the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and Cooper Union, and became known for work in medical, industrial, and applied chemistry.
His books reflect that practical cast of mind. Manual of Practical Medical and Physiological Chemistry and Dyes and Dyeing show a writer interested in explaining how chemistry worked in everyday professional life, especially in laboratories, manufacturing, and textile color work.
In 1923 he inherited the title of 7th Viscount Exmouth from his father, becoming both a British peer and a naturalized American citizen with a long scientific career behind him. He died in 1945, remembered less for inherited rank than for a working life spent teaching and applying chemistry.