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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.
Peckover was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Algernon Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech, by Priscilla Alexander, daughter of Dykes Alexander, a Quaker banker, of Ipswich, Suffolk. Priscilla Hannah Peckover was his sister. He was educated at Grove House School, Tottenham, London. [1]
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.
Tydd St Giles a low lying village formerly in the hundred of Wisbech. Tydd St Mary a parish in South Holland, five miles north of Wisbech. Walsoken, formerly in Norfolk, but part of which was merged with Wisbech in the 20th century. Whittlesey, a market town; annual Straw Bear Festival; Wisbech ("Capital of the Fens" [35]), a market town and port.
The meeting house Stuart attended (and where she is buried) was a thatched building on the North Brink, as shown in a watercolour painting by Algernon Peckover and in use by the Friends from 1711. [11] [e] [13] [14] She died at the age of 88 on 12 July 1742. [4] [15] She is referred to in the Victoria County History. [16]
The National Trust's Peckover House in Wisbech holds a sketchbook (1940-45) of drawings attributed to Oldham. [15] His books still inspire writers of local history. The Wisbech Inns, Taverns and Beerhouses: Past and Present series of books (2021) & (2022) by Andrew Ketley was written as a result of reading Oldham's books. [16] [17]
During the 1880s the Peace Society stagnated. Its Ladies' Peace Association was much more dynamic, and claimed 9,217 members by the summer of 1885, of which 4,000 belonged to Peckover's Wisbech group. In 1889, Peckover was invited to join the executive committee of the Peace Society. Instead, she chose to become one of the society's vice ...
Like the rest of Cambridgeshire, Wisbech was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia.It served as a port on The Wash. [7]One of the first authentic references to Wisbech occurs in a charter dated 664 granting the Abbey at Medeshamstede (now Peterborough) land in Wisbech [8] and in 1000, when Oswy and Leoflede, on the admission of their son Aelfwin as a monk, gave the vill to the ...