Samuel Pegge

Samuel Pegge - the younger (1733 – 22 May 1800) was an antiquary, poet, musical composer and lexicographer. He was the son of Samuel Pegge and their work is frequently intertwined. He was the only surviving son of Samuel and his wife Anne, daughter of Benjamin Clarke, esq., of Stanley, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and by the favour of the Duke of Devonshire, lord chamberlain, he was appointed one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber and an Esquire of the king's household. On 2 June 1796 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. After his death, he was buried on the west side of Kensington churchyard, where a monument was erected to his memory.

Christopher Pegge, together with Wall and Bourne was one of the three most important doctors in Oxford in the early nineteenth century. quotes the following rhyme about them, entitled The Oxford medical trio: I would not call in any one of them all, For only "the weakest will go to the Wall"; The second, like Death, that scythe-armed mower, Will speedily make you a peg or two lower; While the third, with the fees he so silently earns, Is "the bourn whence no traveller ever returns". Another rhyme, about Sir Christopher Pegge, went: Like Circe Sir C. can prescribe a mixt cup, But mixtures Circeian beware to drink up

Samuel Pegge's major works An Elegy on the Death of Godfrey Bagnall Clerke, M.P. for Derbyshire, who died on 26 Dec. 1774, printed at Chesterfield "Brief Memoirs of Edward Capell, Esq.", 1790, in John Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (i. 465–76) Curialia ; or an Historical Account of some Branches of the Royal Household, 5 parts, London, 1782–1806.Parts 1–3 (1782); Parts IV & V (1803), edited after Pegge's death by Nichols "Illustrations of the Churchwardens' Accompts of St Michael Spurrier-Gate, York", in Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Ancient Times (1797) "Memoir of his father, Dr Samuel Pegge", in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (i. 224–58) Anecdotes of the English Language; chiefly regarding the Local Dialect of London and its Environs, edited by John Nichols, London, 1803; 2nd edit., enlarged, "to which is added a Supplement to the Provincial Glossary of Francis Grose", edited by Nichols, London, 1814; 3rd edit., enlarged and corrected, edited by Henry Christmas, London, 1844 Curialia Miscellanea; or Anecdotes of Old Times, regal, noble, gentilitian, and miscellaneous, including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, edited by Nichols, London, 1818