Edward Peacock (22 December 1831 in

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''Men of the time'', 1875 – 31 March 1915'Obituary: Edward Peacock', ''Notes and Queries'', Second series XI, 10 April 1915, 292) was an

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antiquarian and novelist.

Biography

Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward Shaw Peacock (1793–1861), of Bottesford Manor, near

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,''The Catholic Who's Who & Yearbook'', 1910''Lincolnshire at the opening of the 20th century'', 1907 was educated by private tutors. Influenced by

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, he converted to Catholicism as a young man. In 1853 he married Lucy Anne (died 1887), daughter of John S. Weatherall of

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, a Captain in the

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; they had seven children- their son, Max, and daughter,

Mabel Peacock Mabel Geraldine Woodruffe Peacock (9 May 1856– 17 July 1920) was an English folklorist. Peacock was the daughter of Lucy and Edward Peacock F.S.A. of Bottesford Manor, Brigg, Lincolnshire, and later of Kirton-in-Lindsey. Her brother Adrian wa ...

, also published works on the folklore of Lincolnshire. He lived at Bottesford Manor and

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, and in 1869 was appointed

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for the

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. Their son

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was a clergyman and

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. Peacock was elected Fellow of the

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in 1857, and was a corresponding member of the

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, the Anthropological Institute, the English Dialect Society and the

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. In the 1880s he served on the Committee of the

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. A prolific contributor to James Murray's ''

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'', he also wrote contributions to antiquarian journals and other periodicals: the '' Archaeologia'' and ''

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'' of the Society of Antiquaries, the ''Journal of the

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'' and the '' Dublin Review''. At the time of his death he left a biographical work of the known notable combatants of the

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incomplete. Peacock has been described as "one of the most durable contributors" to the first edition of the ''

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''. One of the works which he used as a source for 51 original submission slips is a

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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.

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

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The Edward Peacock Papers
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