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that the blurb in the link Tony gave notes that Pellew is thought to be the model for Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's sequence of novels.
Publishers rubbish. Every book sold as a biography uses such junk to sell books to people who know nothing and then spread it. To be honest I am usually fighting against hordes of people using the far more realistic 'Cochrane was the model'.
In Aubrey's case O'Brian built him from a wide range of officers as some examples Cochrane has the Speedy/Court Case/ Spanish Adventure , Rowley (I think) of the Boadicea has his entire Mauritius campaign including ship names copied, Riou has his bump into an ice berg followed by half the crew buggering off before he managed to get the ship to Australia and so on and so forth and these are just the obvious 'big' copies. When you read James you find yourself saying things like - oh I see where O'Brian got that from..
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