Pedlar may refer to:
*The British English form and original spelling of
peddler
A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a chapman, packman, cheapjack, hawker, higler, huckster, (coster)monger, colporteur or solicitor, is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods.
In England, the term was mostly used fo ...
Entertainment
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The Pedlar'' (or ''The Wayfarer''), a painting by Hieronymus Bosch
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The Isis Pedlar'', a novel
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The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood
The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood is Child ballad 132 (Roud 333), featuring Robin Hood. It is a traditional version of ''Robin Hood Newly Revived''.
Synopsis
A pedlar meets Robin Hood and Little John, and Little John asks what he has in his pack. Li ...
, a Child Ballad
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Robin Hood and the Pedlars, a Child Ballad
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Pedlar of Swaffham The Pedlar of Swaffham is an English folktale from Swaffham, Norfolk. The following text is taken from ''English Fairy and Other Folk Tales'', 1906, which in turn refers to the ''Diary of Abraham dela Pryme'', 1699:
Sources
The Pedlar of Swaffh ...
, a folktale
People
Given names and nicknames
*Thomas Palmer known as
Pedlar Palmer
Pedlar Palmer, born Thomas Palmer, (1876 – 13 February 1949) was an English boxer who held the world bantamweight championship from 1895–1899.
Life
Palmer was born in Canning Town, London on 19 November 1876. His father was a bare-knuckl ...
(1876–1949), British boxer who held the world bantamweight championship, 1895–1899
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Alfred Brian Palmer (1899–1993), Royal Navy captain who had the nickname "Pedlar Palmer"
Surnames
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Arthur Vercoe Pedlar (1932–2022), British clown
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David Pedlar, Director of Research at the National Headquarters of Veterans Affairs Canada
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Philip Pedlar (1899–?), Welsh professional footballer
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Sylvia Pedlar
Sylvia Pedlar (1900–1972) was an American fashion designer specialising in lingerie. She is the only designer to have won the Special Coty Award more than once, in 1951 and 1964.
Born Sylvia Schlang in 1900 in New York, she was an art stud ...
(1901–1972), American lingerie designer
Places
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Pedlar, West Virginia
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Pedlar Island, Ontario, Canada
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Pedlar River
The Pedlar River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the James River in west-central Virginia in the United States. Via the James River, it is ...
, Virginia
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Pedlar Wildlife Management Area in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Other
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Pedlar (fur trade)
Pedlar is a term used in Canadian history to refer to English-speaking independent fur traders from Montreal who competed with the Hudson's Bay Company in western Canada from about 1770 to 1803. After 1779 they were mostly absorbed by the North Wes ...
, fur traders in colonial North America
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