PEDLEY, Charles. b. Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest times to the end of 1860, 1863. d. Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872. H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 304.
PEDLEY, Mr. b. Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses which he trained at Danebury; m. a daughter of John Gully and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner; won the Derby with Cossack 1847. d. about 1872. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 76–8.
PEEBLES, Alexander Marshall. b. 1837; an architect at Highbury hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London; member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook 1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London 1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and vegetable market. d. 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood, London 21 May 1891. bur. Kensal green 25 May. I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 735 portrait; City Press 23 May 1891 p. 2.
PEEBLES, Allan Laing (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot). b. Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut. Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death; adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894; inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun; with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.
PEEBLES, James. b. 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1858. d. 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.
PEEBLES, Philip Cadell. b. 23 April 1842; head of the firm of A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire, paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great Lancashire handicap in 1888. d. 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park, London 26 Nov. 1895. bur. Kensal green 30 Nov. I.L.N. 7 Dec. 1895 p. 694 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895 p. 467 portrait.
PEED, Thomas Thorpe. b. 1825; educ. Royal academy of music under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’ opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31 May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s 3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29 Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843; Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song 1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880. d. Margate 9 Nov. 1888. I.L.N. xxxv 243 (1859) portrait.
PEEK, James (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). b. 8 June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London, the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead, St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. d. Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 13–17 (1865).
PEEL, Arthur (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham, Lincs.) b. 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. d. 15 Oct. 1873.
PEEL, John. b. Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John Peel and At the grave of John Peel. d. Ruthwaite, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1854. bur. Caldbeck churchyard. S. Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–15; H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 106; West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886.