Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Chancellor Pechell
Chancellor Pechell. — Rev. Horace Robert Pechell, M.A. Oxon., Fellow of All Souls, was a lineal descendant of the steadfast refugee, M. Samuel de Pechels (see chapter xxvi.). His father was Lieut.-Colonel Sir Paul Brooke Pechell, first baronet of Pagglesham, who died in 1803. He himself was the third son, born on 12th May 1792. He was Rector of Bix, near Henley-upon-Thames, from 1822 to 1872. Pie was also Chancellor of Brecon, in the diocese of St. David’s — a dignity which is now extinct under the Cathedral Act, 3 and 4 Vict. He married in 1826 Lady Caroline Mary Kerr, daughter of Charlotte, Countess of Antrim in her own right, and of Lord Mark Kerr, her husband (Lady Caroline Pechell died in 1869). Chancellor Pechell resided during the closing years of his life at Moorlands Pittcrnc, in Hampshire, and died on 22d February 1882, in his ninetieth year. His personal estate amounted to upwards of £115,000. His executors were his three surviving sons, Augustus Pechell, Esq., Rear-Admiral Mark Robert Pechell, and Hervey Charles Pcchell, Esq. He left a daughter also, Horatia Charlotte, wife of Colonel Henry Skipwith. The editor of “Crockford’s Clerical Directory” obligingly informs me that the dignities held by this venerable clergyman were “Chancellor, and Canon of Llanbister, in the Collegiate Church of Brecon.”