Edward Peacock

Edward Peacock (22 December 1831 in Hemsworth – 31 March 1915 ) was an English antiquarian and novelist.

Biography Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward Shaw Peacock (1793–1861), of Bottesford Manor, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, was educated by private tutors. He lived at Bottesford Manor and Kirton-in-Lindsey, and in 1869 was appointed Justice of the Peace for the Parts of Lindsey. Their son Adrian was a clergyman and ecologist.

Peacock was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1857, and was a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (1858) and the (1871) and a member of the Surtees Society, the Anthropological Institute, the English Dialect Society and the Early English Text Society. In the 1880s he served on the Committee of the London Library. One of the works which he used as a source for 51 original submission slips is a lost work 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