| Biography | Born on 5 November 1704 at Chesterfield, the only survivng child of Christopher Pegge of Osmaston and Gertrude his wife (nee Stephenson). He was educated at Chesterfield, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he tooh his BA degree in 1725 and became a fellow in 1726. Having taken his Masters in July 1729, he was ordained in December 1729 and received priest's orderx in February 1730. He was briefly Curate of Sundrich, Kent, from September 1730 until he was inducted into the living of Godmersham in Midsummer 1731. He married Anne Clarke, only daughter of Benjamin Clarke of Stanley near Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 13 April 1732. They had one son, Samuel, and one daughter, Anna Katherina, who went on to marry Reverend John Bourne of Spital near Chesterfield, Rector of Sutton cum Duckmanton. After the death of his wife in July 1746, Dr Pegge decided to move back to Derbyshire. Although nominated to take up the perpetual curacy of Brampton, he face opposition from the parishioners, who prevented his taking up that position in 1748. He was, however, able to take up the Rectory of Whittington near Chesterfield, to which was he was inducted on 11 November 1751, where he remained afor the rest of his life. Very soon after, through the good graces of the Duke of Devonshire, he was also inducted into the Rectory of Brindle, Lancashire, which he xchanged for the living of Heath in 1758. Other ecclesiastical libings included the curacy of Wingerworth (1765), prebend of Bobenhall (now Bubbenhall), Warwickhsire, prebend of Whittington in Staffordshire (1763), and prebend of Louth, Lincolnshire (1772). He was to created LL.D by Oxford University on 8 july 1788. He died on 14 February 1796. |