Pegge Family

Biography

Samuel Pegge was born in 1704, a native of Chesterfield, Staffordshire, England; attended St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow in 1726; became vicar of Godmersham, Kent (1731), rector of Whittington, Staffordshire (1751); presented to the living of Whittington (1763); and Preb. of Lincoln (1772); became an antiquarian, publishing occasional sermons, biographical and antiquarian books and tracts, and several hundred papers on antiquities; he died in 1796; his son, the younger Samuel Pegge became a barrister, a groom of his majesty's privy chamber, and one of the esquires of the King's household; he also was an antiquarian, and a large contributor to the Gentleman's magazine ; these included a life of his father; he died in 1800.