Edward Peacock (antiquary)

Edward Peacock (22 December 1831, Hemsworth"Men of the time", 1875] – 31 March 1915'Obituary: Edward Peacock', "Notes and Queries", Second series XI, 10 April 1915, 292] ) was an English antiquarian and novelist.

Biography

Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward S. Peacock (died 1861), of Bottesford Manor, near Brigg, Lincolnshire,"The Catholic who's who & yearbook", 1910] "Lincolnshire at the opening of the 20th century", 1907] was educated by private tutors. Influenced by John Henry Newman, he converted to Catholicism as a young man. In 1853 he married Lucy Anne (died 1887), daughter of John S. Weatherall of New York, a Captain in the United States Navy. He lived at Bottesford Manor and Kirton-in-Lindsey, and in 1869 was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Parts of Lindsey. ["Men and women of the time", 1899]

Peacock was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1857, and was a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (1858) and the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy (1871). In the 1880s he served on the Committee of the London Library. A prolific contributor to James Murray's "New English Dictionary", he also wrote widely for antiquarian journals and other periodicals: the "Archaeologia" and "Proceedings" of the Society of Antiquaries, the "Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute", "Notes and Queries", the "Athenaeum" and the "Dublin Review".

Works

Antiquarian
*(ed.)"The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers", 1863
*"English church furniture, ornaments and decorations, at the period of the Reformation : as exhibited in a List of the Goods destroyed in certain Lincolnshire churches, a.d. 1566", 1866
*(ed.) "A list of the Roman Catholics in the county of York in 1604. Transcribed from the original ms. in the Bodleian library", 1872
*"France, the empire, and civilization", 1873. (Published anonymously)
*"A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire", 1877
*"Index to English speaking students who have graduated at Leyden university", 1883
*"Index to engravings in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries", 1885

Novels
*"Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire", 3 vols, 1870
*"Mabel Heron", 3 vols, 1872
*"John Markenfield", 3 vols, 1874
*"Narcissa Brendon", 2 vols, 1891

References

Further reading

*Binnall, P. B. G. 'A list of the principal writings of Edward Peacock, F.S.A.' , "Lincolnshire Historian", 2:9 (1962), 1-6.

External links

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