Samuel Pegge
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1733 – 1800
Who was Samuel Pegge?
Samuel Pegge - the younger 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.
After receiving a classical education at St. John's College, Cambridge, 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 his majesty's 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.
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- 1733
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- May 22, 1800
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on July 23, 2013
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