Edward Peacock (antiquary)

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Edward Peacock (22 December 1831 in Hemsworth[1] โ€“ 31 March 1915[2]) was an English antiquarian and novelist.

Biography

Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward Shaw Peacock (1793โ€“1861),

Justice of the Peace for the Parts of Lindsey.[7] Their son Adrian was a clergyman and ecologist.[8]

Peacock was elected Fellow of the

Athenaeum and the Dublin Review. At the time of his death he left a biographical work of the known notable combatants of the English Civil War incomplete.[9]

Peacock has been described as "one of the most durable contributors" to the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.[10] One of the works which he used as a source for 51 original submission slips is a lost work called Meanderings of Memory; although the dictionary's current editors have been unable to find that work, the credibility of Peacock's other submissions has led them to assume that the book actually existed.[10][11]

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

  1. ^ a b Men of the time, 1875
  2. ^ a b 'Obituary: Edward Peacock', Notes and Queries, Second series XI, 10 April 1915, 292
  3. ^ Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, vol. 34, Lincolnshire Family History Society, 1999, p. 45
  4. ^ The Catholic Who's Who & Yearbook, 1910
  5. ^ a b c d Lincolnshire at the opening of the 20th century, 1907
  6. ^ Obituary: Miss Mabel Peacock Folk-Lore vol. 31 4:338 (Dec. 1920)
  7. ^ Men and women of the time, 1899
  8. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72414. Retrieved 12 August 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  9. ^ a b "The Edward Peacock Papers". ELGAR: Electronic Gateway to Archives at Rylands. 13 May 2005. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  10. ^ a b OED_Editor (4 June 2013). "Meanderings of Memory". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  11. ^ Flood, Alison (10 May 2013). "Oxford English Dictionary asks public to help track down mystery book". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2016.

Further reading

  • Binnall, P. B. G.
    (1962)"A List of the Principal Writings of Edward Peacock, F.S.A.', in: Lincolnshire Historian, 2:9 (1962), pp. 1โ€“6

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