Sir Henry William Peek, 1st BaronetDL (26 February 1825 – 26 August 1898)[2] was an importer of spices, tea and other groceries, philanthropist and ConservativeMember of Parliament (MP).
Peek House then known simply as Rousdon, as Peek created a village there in the parish of Combpyne, south-east DevonPosition and size of his Georgian dominant house at the west end of its short high street and south of the extremely large Wimbledon Park, soon generally carved out around its edges into smaller mansions and the tennis venue.
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 workedit
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]
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]
Referencesedit
^Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London : Dean & Son. 1903.
^ ab. Leigh Rayment's Baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ ab"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. from the original on 3 December 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
^ abcdWilliam 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. ISBN0-900178-26-4.
^"Sir Henry Peek (Hansard)". from the original on 15 November 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
^. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
^"Parishes: Cranleigh". British History Online. from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
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Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Henry Peek
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