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PEELE, EDWARD. _b._ 1838; educ. for musical profession; L.K.Q.C.P. Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on staff of hospital for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician to hospital for incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll. of surgeons’ medical school; visiting physician to Coombe lying-in hospital. _d._ of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. _Medical times and gazette i_ 416 (1881). PEENE, WILLIAM GURDEN. _b._ 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone, Kent. _d._ Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of books for the library of University college, London. PEER, JOHN. Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the crack whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white waistcoat, buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a leaning position when driving; patronised by the marquis of Worcester, afterwards duke of Beaufort; started a coach from London to Southampton and lost his money. _d._ in poverty Fetter lane, London at an advanced age. _Sporting Review lii_ 113 (1864); _Driving, by the duke of Beaufort_ (1889) 245. PEERS, CHARLES (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge, Wallingford, Oxon.) _b._ 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s lamentation over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802; recorder of Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of Jerusalem, a poem 1823. _d._ Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6 Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 551 (1853). PEET, JOHN. Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841; M.D. Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860; assistant surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858; professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal 1858, retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital 1858–65; member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec. 1849–53, president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to the Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1864, translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at Shanklin from 1865. _d._ Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18 Jany. 1874. _Medical times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p._ 168. PEET, THOMAS. _b._ Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.; capt. Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological assoc. at Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester; director of Union bank of Manchester; received present of plate from Salford market committee for his researches which enabled them to establish their right to the ancient market Feb. 1844. _d._ Manchester 14 Jany. 1862. _Journal of British Archæol. assoc. xix_ 155 (1863). PEILE, THOMAS WILLIAMSON (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven). _b._ 10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18 wrangler 1828; B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1 Oct. 1829 to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate school 1829; P.C. of St Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head master of Repton school 1841–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V. of St. Paul, South Hampstead Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author of Annotations on the apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52; Sermons, doctrinal and didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy communion 1871; his name is attached to upward of 35 works. _d._ 37 St. John’s Wood park, London 29 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Buckhurst Hill churchyard 2 Dec., portrait in hall of Repton school. _The Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p._ 1716. PEILL, JOHN NEWTON. _b._ Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler and B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1832–53, bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St. Botolph’s, Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to death; rural dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany. 1869; with his own astronomical instruments made observations at Newton Toney. _d._ Newton Toney 12 June