Edward Peacock was an English

English people

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 antiquarian and novelist.

Biography

Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward S. Peacock (died 1861), of Bottesford

Bottesford, North Lincolnshire

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 Manor, near Brigg

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, Lincolnshire

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, 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

New York

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, a Captain in the United States Navy

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, his son, Max, and daughter, Mabel Peacock

Mabel Peacock

Mabel Peacock was an English folklorist.Mabel was the daughter of Lucy and Edward Peacock F.S.A. of Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, and later of Kirton-in-Lindsey. She made collections of folklore in this region and published them in journals and her books.Her works include,* An Index of...

, also published works on the folklore of Lincolnshire. He lived at Bottesford Manor and Kirton-in-Lindsey, and in 1869 was appointed Justice of the Peace

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 for the Parts of Lindsey.

Peacock was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

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 in 1857, and was a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

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 (1858) and the Société des antiquaires de Normandie (1871). In the 1880s he served on the Committee of the London Library

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. A prolific contributor to James Murray

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's New English Dictionary, he also wrote contributions to antiquarian journals and other periodicals: the Archaeologia and Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, the Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute

Royal Archaeological Institute

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, Notes and Queries

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, the Athenaeum

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and the Dublin Review

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.

Works

(incomplete list)

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

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. 1–6

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