PECK, Lillian or Lydia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). b. 1850; under the pseudonym of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879; My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. d. New London road, Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.
PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, Sir Sotheron Branthwayt, 1 Baronet (younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk 1760–86). b. 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany. 1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet 27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of Sussex 1848. d. Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.
PECKOVER, Algernon (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech, Cambridge, d. 1833). b. 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. d. 10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.
PEDDER, James. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844 to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank, which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. d. Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.
PEDDER, John. b. 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. d. 13 Somerset place, Walcot, Bath 12 July 1890.
PEDDER, Sir John Lewes (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle Temple, barrister). b. 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8 Bedford square, Brighton. d. 24 March 1859.
PEDDIE, John. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept. 1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825, placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827; lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April 1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840; K.H. 1832. d. 1873.
PEDDIE, John Crofton. b. 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814, major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March 1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. d. Douglas, Isle of Man during a service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.
PEDDIE, John Dick (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years; architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880. d. 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. Scotsman 13 March 1891 p. 5.
PEDDIE, William (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister 1758–1845). b. 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ. of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel 11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843; edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. d. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1893. United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893.