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PEARKS, HENRY; b. 16 Nov 1850; adm. 5 Feb 1863; left Christmas 1864. [Perhaps b. Belbroughton, Worcs., corn and coal merchant, London, m. Harriet A. ---, 1881 Census : but he was christened Belbroughton 15 Dec 1850 as Henry Pearkes, son of Thomas Pearkes and Margaret --- (IGI)].

PEARCE, ZACHARY, son of John Pearce, St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex, distiller; b. 8 Sep 1692; adm. 12 Feb 1704; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1710, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1710, scholar 14 Apr 1711; BA 1713/4; MA 1717; DD Lambeth 1 Jun 1724; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 29 Sep 1716, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1717; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1717, priest 8 Jun 1718 (both Ely); Chaplain to Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor; Rector of St. Bartholomew’s by the Exchange, London 19 Mar 1719/20-4; FRS 30 Jun 1720; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I and II 1721-39; Vicar of St. Martin in the Fields, London 10 Jan 1723/4-56; Dean of Winchester 2 Aug 1739; consecrated Bishop of Bangor 21 Feb 1747/8; Dean of Westminster 4 May 1756 – 24 Jun 1768, res.; translated from Bangor to Rochester 9 Jul 1756, holding see to death; edited Longinus, 1721, and other works; bequeathed his library to Dean and Chapter of Westminster; m. Feb 1721/2 Mary, dau. of Richard Adams, Holborn, distiller; d. 29 Jun 1774. Monument, South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

PEARCE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Pearce; b.; adm. 3 Jul 1772; a letter from his father to Dr Smith dated 18 Sep 1774 asked for his remove into the Shell (published Elizabethan xxi, 175); 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines 8 Jul 1768; half-pay 3 Nov 1772 – 30 Sep 1775; Lieut., 20 Nov 1776; Capt., 1 Jan 1781; half-pay 1 Sep 1783 – 24 Dec 1791; half-pay 21 Nov 1793; served in West Indies 1775, at Cape of Good Hope 1781, and at Lord Howe’s victory off Ushant 1 Jun 1794; m.; d. 26 Nov 1838, aged 80.

Pearce, Thomas Edward Vibert, son of Thomas Vibert Pearce MD FRCS, gen. surgeon, of Harrogate, Yorks, and Edith Jane Legerton, d. of Frank Smith of Bocking, Essex; b. 16 Dec. 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (KS); left July 1952; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1954, BA 1958, MA 1961; lecturer Dept. of Humanity Univ. of Aberdeen 1965-79, Dept. of Classics 1979-2001; retd; d. 1 Mar. 2019.

PEARCE, RICHARD; b.; adm. 16 Jun 1765; left Easter 1775.

Peak, Paul E. Sever, son of W. H. Peak of Kensington; b. 13 Apr. 1908; adm. May 1922 (A); left July 1926; 2nd Lieut. RE (TA) Sept. 1939, transf. RA Aug. 1940 (Maj.); m. 6 May 1937 Marjorie McCrimmon; d. 2003.

PEAD, DEUEL, son of Edwin Pead, Herefordshire; b.; adm.; at school 1659; a boarder; KS (aged 15) 1661; when” about 16 years of age was baptized by the Dean [John Dolben, qv] publickly in the font then newly set up” 18 Apr 1663 (Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 68); elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1664, adm. pens. 1664, scholar 1665; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 17 May 1668, priest (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1672; Chaplain, HMS Rupert 1671; Rector of St. Peter’s, Canterbury, Kent 1672; a payment of £20 was made to “Duel Pead, clerk” 14 Jun 1683, “for the charge of his transportation to Maryland” (moneys paid and received for Secret Services, Camden Society Pub., lii, 72); Chaplain to Duke of Newcastle; Vicar of St. James’s, Clerkenwell, London, from 5 Dec 1691; Rector of Newland St. Laurence, Essex 21 May 1707-16; author, Parturiunt Montes, or Lewis and Clement taken in their own snare, and other works; m. 2 Sep 1681 (IGI) Sarah Birton; d. 12 Jan 1726/7.

Peacock, William Daly, son of William Francis Peacock M.D., of Battersea, by Elizabeth, daughter of William Baly, of Warwick; b. Nov. 4, 1880; adm. Sept. 27, 1894 (H); left Dec. 1895; King's Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1912; served in Great War I; Capt. R.A.M.C. June 19, 1918; Med. Officer, Epsom and Ewell War Hospital; in practice at Battersea; m. March 11, 1916, Sophia, daughter of George Blainey, of Manchester.

PEACOCK, SOUTHWELL, son of William Peacock, St. Clement Danes, London, and Sarah Southwell (IGI); b.; adm.; KS (Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 144); drowned with Edmund Gregory (qv); buried Cloisters, Westminster Abbey 13 Aug 1650.