PEATES, EDWARD, son of Edward Peates; b. ; adm. ; KS 1629 (Bodleian Library, Tanner MSS lxix, f. 224).
PEARSON, EDMOND; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1619 (Chapter Muniments 32451).
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 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.
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, 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.
PEACOCK, CHARLES; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1642, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1642, scholar 1643.
PEACHEY, WILLIAM, fourth son of William Peachey, London, merchant, and Mary, dau. of John Hall, New Grove, Petworth, Sussex; b.; adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1696, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1696, aged 18, scholar 23 Apr 1697; BA 1699/1700; Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 27 Mar 1703; killed at battle of Almanza, Spain 14 Apr 1707.
PAYNE, NICHOLAS; b.; GS 1540; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).
PAYNE, MICHAEL, son of Michael Payne, Medbourne, Leics., and Elizabeth --- (IGI); b. 28 Mar 1646 (IGI); b.; adm.; KS (aged 16) 1661; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1663, adm. pens. 4 Jul 1663, scholar 1664; BA 1666/7; MA 1670; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1668; ordained deacon 11 Mar 1676/7, priest 15 Mar 1676/7 (both London); Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge Univ., from 1686; buried Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge 9 May 1695.