Born 30 December 1806 at Frieston, Lincolnshire, son of Paul Francis Pell, and died 25 October 1873 at Prince of Wales Terrace, Scarborough. (Mildmay was his grandmother’s surname.) Seems to have lived at West Ashby, near Horncastle at least from 1835 until 1844, and then was Sheriff (1848-51) and High Sheriff (1852 and 1853) of Breconshire whilst living at Tymawr, near Pencelli.. His estates there were sold in 1856, and he left the area in 1858, apparently in financial difficulties (see below).
Educated at Louth Grammar School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1825). In 1851 he was ‘proprietor and occupier of 300 acres, employing 20 labourers’ at Tymawr, but by 1871 was living at 27 Prince of Wales Terrace,Scarborough (‘Major Royal First Lincoln Militia’), in what may well have been a lodging house.
WEST ASBHBY GROVE, near HORNCASTLE. MR. WEIR has the honour to announce that he will SELL by AUCTION, on the premises at West Ashby, near Horncastle, on Wednesday, May 8 and Thursday, May 9, the whole of the modern and very superior HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, Greenhouse Plants, Sheep, Pigs, Hay, and other Effects, of Paul Mildmay Pell, Esq.— Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Babington and Boulton, booksellers, Horncastle, and of the auctioneer.
AT THE MART. Messrs. Humphreys and Wallen.— Freehold mansion and appurtenances of “Ty-mawr,” Llanfrynach, near Brecon, comprising 96 acres—knocked down at 6,200l. Freehold estate, comprising the “Ty-mawr and Llanusk” farm, near the preceding, in all 221 acres—knocked down at 8,280l. The freehold estate, known as “Coed-y-brrn,” comprising 76 a. 1 r. 30 p. of mountain wood and pasture land—knocked down at 760l
BRECONSHIRE. MR. THOMAS EVANS will SELL by AUCTION, at Glanwysk, the residence of Captain Pell (who is leaving the neighbourhood), on Tuesday, the 3rd of August, 1858, at 2 in the afternoon, an assemblage of superior HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and EFFECTS, comprising mahogany 4 post and other bedsteads and drapery, chests and drawers, washstand, toilette tables, chairs, wardrobes, pier glass, book cases with glass doors, tables, hat stand, hall stove, garden frames, dairy and brewing utensils, and the usual kitchen and culinary requisites ; a large assortment of choice greenhouse plants with handsome flower stands, &c, &c. ; a superior dog cart, nearly new ; excellent cow and calf, and a nice Jersey cow; sow and two pigs the celebrated Tymawr breed; a brace of superior liver-coloured spaniels ; and numerous other effects.
THE QUEEN’S FUND. ROMFORD LADY’S PRICE LESS GIFT. Miss Mary F. Clifton, of The Cottage, Romford, writes:- The cameo necklace in my possession was formerly the property of the Princess Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon I., and was purchased after her death in 1825 bv an old friend of my family, Captain Mildmay Pell, then travelling in Italy, who, late in life falling on evil days sold his estates in Lincolnshire, and asked my father to buy this necklace, and a picture he had also brought from Italy. The necklace is from Thorwaldsen’s well known designs. I wish now to sell it for the benefit of the Queen’s Work for Women Fund. As it is not only a work of art but has historic interest, it should command a high price.”
He was commissioned Ensign in the Royal North Lincoln Militia in 1831, and Captain in the Royal South Lincoln Militia in 1853. He retired in 1872 as a Major, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel on retirement “with permission to retain the rank, and wear the uniform of the regiment.”
Tymawr.—Notwithstanding the absence from this neighbourhood of Captain Pell, who is with his regiment, the South Lincoln Rifles, the workpeople on the Tymawr estate were not forgotten, but by his orders received, through his steward, Mr. Lord, their usual Christmas present of beef and ale.
Married at Long Ashton, Somerset, on 7 July 1830, to Louisa Caroline Loader, nee Dare. She was born at Weymouth in 1802, and married firstly at St. Luke, Chelsea, on 28 Mar 1821 to William Augustus Loader. They had a child (apparently born in Madras ca 1829) Augusta Louise Loader, and he died shortly thereafter. She died 7 May 1882 at 9 Alfred Street, Scarborough; some memories of her are here.
On the 7th ult., at Long Ashton, near Bristol, (by the Rev. J. Lewis,) P. M. Pell, Esq. of Horncastle, in this county, to Louisa Caroline Loader, second daughter of the late Phocion Dare, Esq. of Clifton, Somerset.
Extraordinary Fecundity. — Mrs. Mildmay Pell, of Tymawr, Breconshire, has now in her possession six half-bred pullets of the Shanghae and Dorking breed, which have laid the enormous number of 170 eggs between the 4th and the 23rd of November last !
