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 HERBERT, brother of William Awdry Peck (qv); b. 23 Nov 1868; adm. 23 Sep 1880 (H); left Aug 1881; readm. 26 Jan 1883; left Aug 1885; RMC Sandhurst Dec 1887; 2nd Lieut., Royal Dublin Fusiliers 24 Apr 1889; Lieut., 10 Aug 1891; Capt., 24 Apr 1900; Indian Army; Maj., 24 Apr 1907; Lieut. -Col., 24 Apr 1915; transferred to supernumary list 1 May 1916; in civil employ, Cantonment Magistrates’ Dept., from 1906; retd. 24 Apr 1921; m. 20 Dec 1901 Margaret Jane Ada, second dau. of Edward Batt MD, Harold Road, Upper Norwood, Surrey.

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.

PECKHAM, JOHN, son of William Peckham, Chichester, Sussex, apothecary, and his second wife Mary Scutt, Petworth, Sussex; bapt. 5 Feb 1726/7; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1739 (Maskelyne's); of Nyton, Sussex; m. 11 Nov 1775 Elizabeth, dau. of Woodroff Drinkwater, Chichester; d. 9 Feb 1782.

Pedler, Hubert Charles George, son of George Henry Pedler, M.R.C.S., of Knightsbridge, by Maria Stratford Howard, daughter of the Rev. Daniel Gillett, Rector of Geldeston, Suffolk; b. Sept. 22, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (G); left July 1904; Univ. Coll. London; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1911; D.P.H. 1924; practised at Colchester, Essex; served in France in the R.A.M.C. Aug. 1914 - March 1919; acting Major March 29, 1918; m. March 4, 1916, Mary, daughter of Magnus Henry Charles Johnson, of Highgate; d. 5 May 1958.

PEEL, EDMUND YATES, brother of William Accrington Peel (qv); b. 10 Apr 1817; adm. 28 Sep 1827 (Stelfox's); Ensign, 33rd Foot 18 Mar 1836; Lieut., unattached, half-pay 17 Jul 1840; 54th Foot 26 Aug 1841; 11th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 25 Nov 1842; Capt., 3 Nov 1846; Maj., 20 Jun 1854; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 12 Dec 1854; half-pay 22 Jun 1858; served in Crimean War; d. unm. 25 Mar 1885.

PEEL, JOHN HENRY WESTCAR, brother of William Accrington Peel (qv); b. 29 Aug 1822; adm. 21 Jan 1835 (Benthall's); a brewer at Watlington, Oxfordshire; m. 16 May 1844 Catherine, dau. of James Torry Hester, Waste Court, Abingdon, Berks.; d. 14 Jun 1891.