Broughton Benjamin Pegge Burnell

Broughton Benjamin Pegge Burnell (c. 1774– 1850) was a landowner who lived at Beauchief Abbey and Winkbourn Hall. He was High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire and a magistrate for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. [http://books.google.com/books?id=WNoacQ1Qa74C&dq=%22Broughton%20Benjamin%20Pegge%20Burnell%22&lr=&as_brr=3&pg=PA325&ci=472,195,384,233&source=bookclip The Gentleman's Magazine] ]

Biography

Pegge Burnell was born Broughton Benjamin Steade to a Yorkshire family. His father Thomas Steade had married Millicent the daughter of Strelly Pegge of Beauchief Abbey in Derbyshire (later Boundary changes have now put the Abbey inside the city of Sheffield boundary). When his elder brother died on the island of St Dominingo in 1796 he inherited his families estates.

Steade married his first cousin, Elizabeth Dalton, on 21 December 1803. [http://www.delasallesheffield.co.uk/clubhistory.html De La Salle Sheffield] , from the Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, accessed September 2008] Miss Elizabeth Dalton and had issue one son Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell esq who married in 1836 Harriet daughter of Hugh Parker esq of Woodthorpe near Sheffield. Steade was then left the lands and estates of his uncle, Peter Strelly Pegge on the condition that he take on the surname of Strelley Pegge. He did this in 1836 by Royal license in the same year as his only son, Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell, married Harriet Parker of Woodthorpe. He also carried out alterations to the family home that year and had his new initials added to the entrance.

Pegge Burnell served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1839.LondonGazette|issue=19704|startpage=214|date=4 February 1839|accessdate=2008-04-09]

He died aged 76 in Regents Street in London.

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