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For his son, the English antiquary, poet, musical composer and lexicographer, see Samuel Pegge (the younger).

Samuel Pegge
Born5 November 1704[1]
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Died14 February 1796(1796-02-14) (aged 91)
EducationChesterfield
Occupation(s)Vicar and Antiquarian
SpouseAnne Clarke
Childrenthree
Parent(s)Christopher and Gertrude Pegge

Samuel Pegge "the Elder" (5 November 1704 – 14 February 1796) was an English antiquary and clergyman.

Born at

Mayor of Chesterfield three times.[3] Samuel published an important study on the Roman roads of Derbyshire as well as notes which his son, also Samuel, continued on the subject of Derbyshire words and phrases.[4]

Education

Samuel Pegge was educated at Chesterfield and he became a pensioner and scholar of

Spalding Society, to which he contributed some papers, and from 1730 to 1732 belonged to the Zodiac Club, a college literary society consisting of twelve members denominated by the signs of the zodiac. Pegge was the original Mars.[3]

Vicar and antiquary

Samuel Pegge's church in Old Whittington, as it was in 1785, and as drawn by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm. This church was destroyed by a fire.

Pegge was ordained in 1729, and in 1730 became curate to Dr.

John Lynch at Sundridge in Kent. On 6 December 1731 he became the vicar of Godmersham, Kent, where he lived for about twenty years, writing on antiquities and collecting books and coins. From 1749 to 1751 he lived at Surrenden, again in Kent, as tutor to the son of Sir Edward Dering. In 1751 he was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and in the same year was inducted into the rectory of Old Whittington, near Chesterfield, exchanging Godmersham for the rectory of Brinhill (or Brindle), Lancashire. On 22 October 1758 he exchanged Brinhill for the vicarage of Heath
, near Whittington, holding Heath together with Whittington until his death.

In 1765 he was presented to the perpetual curacy of Wingerworth, near Whittington. He was a prebendary of Lichfield (1757–1796), and in 1772 was collated to a stall in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 he was created LL.D. by the University of Oxford. He died, after a fortnight's illness, on 14 February 1796 at the age of 92. He was buried in the chancel at Whittington, where a mural tablet was installed. His small collection of English coins and medals were sold by auction on 23 March 1797.[3]

Family

'The Pegge coat of Arms. The Pegge family are originally from Shirley, Ashbourne. A distant relative is Catherine Pegge, a mistress of Charles II of England.[6]

On 13 April 1732, Pegge married Anne (d. July 1746), daughter of Benjamin Clarke of

Forme of Cury (see illustration above) however there was an oil painting of him (reputed a better likeness) by Elias Needham.[3]

Contributions

Pegge contributed to the first ten volumes of the

Gentleman's Magazine from 1746 to 1795, signing himself "Paul Gemsege" – an anagram of Samuel Pegge), T. Row ( = The Rector Of Whittington), and "L. E." ( = [Samue]L [Pegg]E). While vicar of Godmersham Pegge made collections relating to Kent, including a Monasticon Cantianum in two folio manuscript volumes, and an account of the antiquities of Wye. He compiled a manuscript Lexicon Xenophonticum, and possessed various lexicons annotated by himself, as well as two volumes of collections in English history.[3]

Published works

  1. A Series of Dissertations on some elegant and valuable Anglo-Saxon Remains (chiefly coins), London, 1756.
  2. Memoirs of the Life of Roger de Weseham - Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, London, 1761.
  3. An Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, London, 1766. Evans (Coins of the Ancient Britons, p. 7 t cf. p. 342) approved of Pegge's division of the coins, but not of the descriptions of the types.
  4. An Assemblage of Coins fabricated by authority of the Archbishops of Canterbury, London, 1772.
  5. FitzStephen's Description of London (translated from the Latin), 1772.
  6. Evelyn's Fumifugium, edited by S. P., 1772.
  7. Forme of Cury : a Roll of ancient English Cookery, London, 1780; published from a manuscript belonging to Gustavus Brander
    .
  8. Annales Elise de Trickingham, &c., ed. by S. P., 1789.
  9. The Life of Robert Grosseteste Bishop of Lincoln, London, 1793, (Pegge's principal work).
  10. An Historical Account of Beauchief Abbey (Derbyshire), ed. by J. Nichols, London, 1801, the printing of which was largely supervised by Pegge's son Samuel.
  11. Anonymiana, or Ten Centuries of Observations, 1809; also 1818.
  12. An Alphabet of Kenticisms, printed in "Cleveland Words" &c. (English Dialect Society), 1876. (Nos. 10-12 were posthumous.) [3]
  13. A Disquisition on the Lows or Barrows in the Peak of Derbyshire, Particularly that capital of British Monuments called Arbelows Archaeologia 7: 131-148 1785
  14. Illustrations of some Druidical remains from the Peak of Derbyshire drawn by Hayman Rooke Archaeologia 7: 19-24 1785
  15. Observations by the Rev. M Pegge on the Stanton Moor Urns and Drudical Temple Archaeologia 8: 58-61 1787
  16. Observations on an ancient font at Burnham Deepdale, in Norfolk Society of Antiquaries Nov 18 1790.

References

  1. ^ University of London archives accessed September 2007
  2. ^ Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century By John Nichols 1812
  3. ^ a b c d e f Samuel Pegge the Elder in Dictionary of National Biography accessed online September 2007
  4. ^ a b The Samuel Pegge lexicographical manuscripts - June 2006 Kings College Manuscripts by Katie Sambrook. Accessed 26 September 2007
  5. ^ "Samuel Pegge (PG722S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ Magna Britannia, Daniel and Samuel Lysons, Volume 5, 1817

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