Biography:
Albert Julian Pell was born 19 November 1863, the son of the Reverend Beauchamp Henry Beauchamp St John Pell (Commoners 1838) and Julia Caroline Maria Pell, the daughter of Edward Tyndall, RN. His younger brother, Lieutenant Colonel Beauchamp Tyndall Pell D.S.O. was killed in action of Gheluvelt on 14 November 1914.
Albert came to Winchester College from Twyford School in September 1877 as a Scholar. He was a School Prefect in his last year and won a number of academic prizes.
He went up to Merton College, Oxford, in 1882 and took a degree Jurisprudence in 1887 and in 1890 was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn.
For some years, he held the rank of Captain and Hon. Major in the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, being employed for a time as a musketry instructor. He lived at his uncle's house, The Manor, Wilburton, Cambridge, where an involvement in local affairs took much of his time. He was on the Isle of Ely Council, was a Justice of the Peace and from February 1893 a Deputy Lieutenant for Cambridgeshire.
Shortly before the outbreak of war, Albert was appointed instructor in musketry to a detachment of the New Army, and was attached to the General Staff of the Western Command. He died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage while going on duty on 5 September 1916. He is buried at Wilburton parish church.
Major Pell married Catherine Marion Greene in Jun 1897; the couple had two daughters.