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PECK, EDWARD FRANCIS, brother of William Awdry Peck (qv); b. 27 Mar 1867; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (H); QS 25 Oct 1881; left Apr 1884; adm. solicitor Dec 1890; m. 6 Jan 1909 Elizabeth Mary Christian, youngest dau. of James Armstrong, Sutherland Avenue, Paddington.

PECK, FRANCIS, son of Rev. Francis Peck, Rector of Saltwood, Kent, and Margaret Ruck; b. 31 Oct 1685; adm.; QS 1702; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1706, adm. pens. 28 May 1706, scholar 25 Apr 1707; BA 1709/10; MA 1713; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1710, priest 24 Dec 1710 (both Ely); Vicar of Orlestone, Kent 21 Oct 1710-5; joined the Nonjurors early 1715; the critical meeting, which resulted in the formal split over the Usages controversy, was held at his chambers in Thavies Inn 19 Dec 1717 (Chruch Quarterly Review, xci, 281); took an important part in the preparation of the famous Ancient Liturgies, to which he contributed the preface; m. 1719 Mrs Longford, widow; d. Jan 1724/5.

PECK, HENRY CECIL, brother of William Awdry Peck (qv); b. 11 Sep 1865; adm. 27 Sep 1877 (H); QS 18 Jun 1880; left May 1884; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 11 Oct 1884; BA 1887; MA 1891; a master at St. Clare Coll., Walmer, Kent; d. unm. 3 Jan 1897.

Peck, Jasper Augustine, son of John Herbert Peck (qv); b. 14 July 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (KS); left July 1924; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1924, BA 1928; called to the Bar (Inner Temple) Nov. 1930; South-Eastern Circuit and Chancery Bar; RA 1940-5, (Staff Capt. Judge Advocate-General's dept); sen. legal asst Colonial Office 1945, asst legal adviser 1950-65, retd 1965; CMG 1965; m. 18 Dec. 1939 Olwen, d. of Lieut.-Col. Eliot Crawshay-Williams of Coed-y-Mwstwr, Glam.; d. 18 Oct. 1980.

PECK, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS 1675; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1679, adm. sizar 19 Jun 1679, aged 16, scholar 1680.

PECK, WILLIAM AWDRY, eldest son of Jasper Kenrick Peck, Lincoln’s Inn, barrister, and Mary, second dau. of Christopher Heath, Byng Place, Gordon Square, London; b. 6 Aug 1861; adm. 26 Jan 1874; exhibitioner 1875; QS 1876; Mure Scholar 1878; Capt. of the School 1879; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1880, matr. 15 Oct 1880; BA 1884; MA 1889; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 8 May 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; Conveyancing Counsel to Supreme Court from 3 Nov 1932; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1890-9; m. 20 Aug 1914 Frances Ellen Van Heythusen, widow of Alfred Benton Blythe, Esher, Surrey, [solicitor ?] and dau. of William Budd MD FRS, Bristol; d. 16 Dec 1933.

PEERS, RICHARD, son of Richard Peers, Lisburn, co. Antrim, tanner; b. 1645; apprenticed to father’s trade; ran away to Bristol, from where an uncle sent him to school in Carmarthenshire; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1664, matr. 22 Jul 1664, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1664 - void 1676, Tutor 1671-5; BA 1668; MA 1671; Esquire Bedell of Arts and Physic 21 Sep 1675; licensed to practise medicine 6 Jul 1688; translated Wood’s History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford into Latin, 1674, and compiled the first published catalogue of Oxford graduates, 1689; m. 27 Dec 1677 Mary Tipping, Oxford; d. 11 Aug 1690. DNB.

PEETERS, GERARD, son of William Peeters, Arundel, Sussex; bapt. 20 Sep 1562; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1582, adm. scholar 1583; BA 1586/7; MA 1590 (incorp. Oxford 1594); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1589 –c. 1592; ordained; Vicar of Poling, Sussex 11 Sep 1591-4; Rector of St. Peter and St. Mary Westout, Lewes, Sussex, from 1591/2; Rector of St. John’s sub Castro, Lewes, Sussex, from 9 Feb 1592/3; Rector of Plumpton, Sussex, from 6 Nov 1593; Prebendary of Chichester from 16 Apr 1596; Chaplain to Thomas, Lord Buckhurst; probably author of Libellus de Memoria verissimaque bene recordandi Scientia, 1584; m. Elizabeth, sister of Joshua Blackstone (qv); d. 1598. DNB.

PEIRS, JOHN, son of John Peirs, Denton, Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of Ven. Edward Layfield DD, Archdeacon of Essex; grandson of Right Rev. William Peirs DD, Bishop of Peterborough; b.; adm.; KS 1672; did not obtain election to either University 1674, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Jul 1674, aged 18.

PELLING, EDWARD, son of Rev. Thomas Pelling, Rector of Trowbridge, Wilts., and Margery --- (IGI); bapt. Trowbridge, Wilts. 21 Jun 1640 (IGI); adm.; in school lists 1656; KS Christmas quarter 1656; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1658, adm. pens. 3 Jul 1658, scholar 14 Apr 1659; BA 1661/2; MA 1665; DD 1690; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1664, Major Fellow 1665 – c. 1668; ordained; Curate, Boxworth, Cambs., 1668-73; Vicar of St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London 11 May 1674-8; Vicar of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London 1 Oct 1678 –91; Prebendary of Westminster 3 May 1683 – 4 Jul 1691; Rector of Petworth, Sussex, from 4 Jun 1691, also Rector of Northchapel, Sussex, from 1691; Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary I (listed as such Miege 1691), Queen Anne, and George I; Proctor in Convocation for Diocese of Chichester 1710; author, The Antiquity of the Protestant Religion, 1687, and other works; m. 1st, Mary --- (IGI); m. 2nd, 28 Oct 1710 Margaret Hill, widow, Richmond, Surrey; buried Petworth, Sussex 16 Mar 1717/8. DNB.