Edward Peacock (22 December 1831 inHemsworth^[1] – 31 March 1915^[2]) was anEnglish antiquarian and novelist.

Edward Peacock, the only son of the agriculturalist Edward Shaw Peacock (1793–1861),^[3] ofBottesford Manor, nearBrigg,Lincolnshire,^[4][5] was educated by private tutors.^[1] Influenced byJohn Henry Newman, he converted to Catholicism as a young man.^[2] In 1853 he married Lucy Anne (died 1887), daughter of John S. Weatherall ofNew York City, a Captain in theUnited States Navy;^[5] they had seven children- their son, Max, and daughter,Mabel Peacock, also published works on the folklore of Lincolnshire.^[6] He lived at Bottesford Manor andKirton-in-Lindsey, and in 1869 was appointedJustice of the Peace for theParts of Lindsey.^[7] Their sonAdrian was a clergyman andecologist.^[8]

Peacock was elected Fellow of theSociety of Antiquaries of London in 1857, and was a corresponding member of theNew England Historic Genealogical Society (1858) and theSociété des antiquaires de Normandie [Wikidata] (1871) and a member of theSurtees Society, theAnthropological Institute, the English Dialect Society and theEarly English Text Society.^[9] In the 1880s he served on the Committee of theLondon Library.^[5] A prolific contributor toJames Murray'sNew English Dictionary,^[5] he also wrote contributions to antiquarian journals and other periodicals: theArchaeologia andProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, theJournal of theRoyal Archaeological Institute,Notes and Queries, theAthenaeum and theDublin Review. At the time of his death he left a biographical work of the known notable combatants of theEnglish Civil War incomplete.^[9]

Peacock has been described as "one of the most durable contributors" to the first edition of theOxford English Dictionary.^[10] One of the works which he used as a source for 51 original submission slips is alost work calledMeanderings of Memory; although the dictionary's current editors have been unable to find that work, the credibility of Peacock's other submissions has led them to assume that the book actually existed.^[10][11]

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Antiquarian

• (ed.)The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 1863
• English church furniture, ornaments and decorations, at the period of the Reformation : as exhibited in a List of the Goods destroyed in certain Lincolnshire churches, a.d. 1566, 1866
• (ed.)A list of the Roman Catholics in the county of York in 1604. Transcribed from the original ms. in the Bodleian library, 1872
• France, the empire, and civilization, 1873. (Published anonymously)
• A glossary of words used in the wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire, 1877
• Index to English speaking students who have graduated at Leyden University, 1883
• Index to engravings in the "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries", 1885

Novels

• Ralf Skirlaugh, the Lincolnshire Squire, 3 vols, 1870
• Mabel Heron, 3 vols, 1872
• John Markenfield, 3 vols, 1874
• Narcissa Brendon, 2 vols, 1891

• Binnall, P. B. G. (1962)"A List of the Principal Writings of Edward Peacock, F.S.A.', in:Lincolnshire Historian, 2:9 (1962), pp. 1–6

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• "Archival material relating to Edward Peacock".UK National Archives.
• The Edward Peacock Papers atJohn Rylands Library

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