Admiral Mark Robert Pechell (6 July 1830 – 9 July 1902) was a British

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officer who took part in the Baltic Expedition during the

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1854-55.

Biography

Pechell was the second son of the Rev. Horace Robert Pechell (1792-1882),

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, and rector of Bix, near Henley-on-Thames, by his wife Lady Caroline Mary Kerr (d.1869), daughter of Lord Mark Kerr and Charlotte McDonnell, Countess of Antrim. He joined the

, and served in the Baltic Expedition of 1854-55, when an Anglo-French fleet entered the Baltic sea to attack the Russian naval base of

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during the

. Pechell was in command of the

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HMS ''Lark'' at the bombardment of Sveaborg. Pechell was promoted to admiral on the retired list on 14 February 1892. He died at his residence in

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on 9 July 1902. Pechell married, in 1861, Ellen Maria Derby (d.1908), daughter of Cobbett Derby and niece of Sir Samuel Fludyer. The couple left nine children, including Captain Mark Horace Kerr Pechell (1867-1899) and Captain Charles Augustus Kerr Pechell (1869-1899), who both died a couple of days apart in

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during the early days of the

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. The youngest daughter, Aileen Kerr Pechell (ca 1879-1920), was the wife of

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. Another daughter, Maud Louisa Pechell, was the mother of

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by her marriage to the ornithologist

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.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 146th edition, ed. Charles Kidd, David Williamson, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2000, p. 1494

References

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