Henry Peek
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| Crest | Two hazel nuts, slipped proper. |
| Shield | 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
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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
[edit]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
[edit]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 £57,200,000 in 2023) 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
[edit]- ^ Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London : Dean & Son. 1903.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Peek, Sir Henry William, (26 Feb. 1825–26 Aug. 1898), JP, DL". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u189792. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
- ^ a b c d William Abraham Bartlett (1865). The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Wimbledon, Surrey: With ... Harvard University. Simpkin, Marshall, & co .; [etc., etc.] 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)". Archived from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Calendar of Probates and Administrations". Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Parishes: Cranleigh". British History Online. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
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