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Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover LL FRGS, FSA, FLS (16 August 1830 – 21 October 1919), was an English Quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts. Early years [ edit ]
Priscilla Hannah Peckover was born on 27 October 1833 in Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, the third of eight children of Algernon Peckover (1803–1893) and Priscilla Alexander (c. 1803 – 1883). Her brother was Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover (1830–1919). [1] Her family were wealthy Quaker bankers and philanthropists.
[b] His paternal grandparents were J. Doyle Penrose, an Irish-born artist, and The Hon. Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, daughter of Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover; his maternal grandparents were physiologist John Beresford Leathes and Sonia Marie Natanson, a Russian Jew.
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The travel writer James Hooper was shown around the Friends Meeting House and Burying Ground by Alexander Peckover in 1897, later in his newspaper article he notes 'the headstone inscription - Jane Stuart Died 1742 Aged 88' and 'this highly accomplished woman once fainted in the God's Acre of the peace-loving Friends, and under the turfy spot ...
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Alexander Peckover 1st Baron Peckover (1830–1919) British Quaker banker and philanthropist. Born in Wisbech. J. Doyle Penrose (1862–1932) was an Irish painter known for his religious and mythological paintings. He married Elizabeth Josephine Peckover, daughter of Baron Peckover. Penrose was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in ...