Henry Peek
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Crest | Two hazel nuts, slipped proper. |
Blazon | Azure an estoile Argent, in chief three crescents of the last. |
Motto | Le Maître Vient (The Master Comes)[1] |
Sir Henry William Peek, 1st Baronet DL (26 February 1825 – 26 August 1898)[2] was an importer of spices, tea and other groceries, philanthropist and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP).
Parents, marriage and residence[]
Peek was born in 1825 to James Peek of Watcombe, Torquay, Devon and Elizabeth, his first wife.[3]
He married in 1848, Margaret Maria (d 1884), second daughter of William Edgar of Clapham Common, Surrey.[3]
Wimbledon House, Wimbledon Village stood near the west end of its short High Street, about 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) west of the parish church.[4] It was probably built about the middle of the 18th century.[4] It housed Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé in some of his final years (died 1818), MP Joseph Marryat then after a time Peek.[4] It was demolished about 1900-1902 passing to a building syndicate.[4]
Political work[]
At the 1865 general election he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Eastern division of Surrey but a new dual-member constituency was created along its western belt (Mid Surrey) under the Second Reform Act, where he was elected in 1868 MP. He was re-elected in his seat until his resignation in 1884.[5] Hansard shows he made 93 speeches or questions in Parliament, from 1869 to 1884, contributing in each year.[6]
Title and legacy[]
He was made a baronet on 13 May 1874, of Rousdon in the County of Devon.[2]
Sir Henry's probate was resworn in 1900 as leaving assets of £418,584.8 (equivalent to about £45,600,000 in 2019) and his son died the next year.[7] His son in turn died in 1927, with assets of £172,685 and the baronetcy reached the fifth generation in 2004.
In Surrey Cranleigh's old Peek Institute was founded by Peek in memory of his late wife, namely a club, with reading and billiard rooms, and a library.[8]
References[]
- ^ Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. 1903.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Baronetcies beginning with "P" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2009.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Peek, Sir Henry William, (26 February 1825–26 Aug. 1898), JP, DL." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 December 2007; https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-189792>
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d History and Antiquities of Wimbledon, William A. Bartlett, 1865, pp 144-167
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 465, 467. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ "Sir Henry Peek (Hansard)".
- ^ https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=peek&yearOfDeath=1898&page=2#calendar Calendar of Probates and Administrations
- ^ 'Parishes: Cranleigh', in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3, ed. H E Malden (London, 1911), pp. 86–92. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp86-92
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Henry Peek
- 1825 births
- 1898 deaths
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Deputy Lieutenants of Devon
- UK MPs 1868–1874
- UK MPs 1874–1880
- UK MPs 1880–1885
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom