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The house was built in 1722 and later bought by Alfred Southwell. [1] It was bought by Jonathan Peckover at the end of the 18th century. [2] Alexander Peckover was created Baron Peckover in 1907. During the period in which the building was in the ownership of the Peckovers, the building was known as Bank House.
The following year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Peckover, of Wisbech in the County of Cambridge. [7] In 1905 Cambridge University awarded him the honorary degree of LL.D. [ 8 ] After his death part of the estates were sold off by auction at the Alexandra Theatre, Wisbech in 1920.
The museum holds an extensive collection of maps, which were exhibited in Cambridge in 1934, Peckover House 1954 and 1976 and the museum in 1993. [14] In 1947 the Museum Committee recommended to the trustees that the manuscript of Dickens' Great Expectations, valued at thousands of pounds, be sold.
At the 1871 census Wisbech (Municipal Borough Limits) consisted of 6,432acres, 2,162 houses, and 9,362 persons. [2] A long, narrow tail of land was detached and given to Wisbech Rural District. In 1933 the south-western part of Wisbech MB was transferred to the parish of Elm leaving Wisbech RD surrounding the Borough on three sides. [3] [4]
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Priscilla Hannah Peckover (27 October 1833 – 8 September 1931) was an English Quaker, pacifist and linguist from a prosperous banking family. After helping to raise the three daughters of her widowed brother, in her forties she became involved in the pacifist movement.
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