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PECHELL, AUGUSTUS, eldest son of Horace Robert Pechell (qv); b. 22 Jan 1828; adm. 30 Sep 1842 (Scott's); QS 1843; left 1846; a clerk, House of Lords 20 Jan 1847 – 31 Mar 1876; m. 7 Apr 1863 Lucy Jane, only surviving dau. of Rev. Charles Douglas Beckford, Southampton; d. 4 Apr 1894.

PECHELL, AUGUSTUS, son of Augustus Pechell (adm. 1765, qv); b. 25 Feb 1791; adm. 27 Sep 1802; in school list 1803; KS 1805; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1809, matr. 17 May 1809, Westminster Student; BA 1813; MA 1815; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jun 1811, called to bar 21 Nov 1817; Chancellor, Diocese of St. David’s; d. unm. 10 Jan 1863.

PECHELL, AUGUSTUS, brother of Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, Bart. (qv); b. 4 Dec 1753; adm. 17 Jan 1765; KS 1768; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1772, matr. 17 Jun 1772, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1772 – void by marriage 15 Oct 1781; BA 1776; MA 1779; Western Circuit; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1778-92); Receiver-Gen., Post Office 1785, Customs 1790; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1792-8); m. 25 Sep 1781 Sarah, fourth dau. of Thomas Drake (adm. 1735, qv); d. 19 Sep 1820.

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.