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Peek, Francis

Male 1833 - 1899  (65 years)


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  • Name Peek, Francis 
    Born 27 Sep 1833  Cornwall Place, Islington Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 5 Feb 1834  St Mary, Islington Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1871  [1] 
    Tea Merchant 
    Trustee of the James Peek Trust 1875 
    Named in original Trust Indenture of 8 April 1874; Chairman of the James Peek Trust 1878,1890,1892,1897-1898 
    Census 1891  8 Queens Gardens, Margate, Kent Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died Sep 1899 
    Census 1901  Shepherds Farm, Nutfield Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Trustee of the Hazelwood Trust NK 
    Residence "Roby", Sydenham Hill, co. Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Shirley, Croydon, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I605  Peek Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Feb 2015 

    Father Peek, William,   b. 20 Nov 1791, Devon, Kingsbridge Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Sep 1870, Isle of Wight, Ryde Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Francis, Mary,   b. 1804,   d. 8 Aug 1874, 2 Highlands Road, Upper Norwood, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 30 May 1820  London, St Stephen's, Coleman Street Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1851  9 Pulteney Street, Bath Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1861  Balham Hill, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Family ID F185  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Meigh, Lydia Hicks,   b. C 1835,   d. Q1 1917, Croydon, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married Q3 1855  West Derby, Lancashire Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 1861  Roby Village, Huyton, Prescot, Liverpool, Lancs Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Census 1871  Roby, 7 Crescent Wood Road, Dulwich, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Census 1881  Roby, 7 Crescent Wood Road, Dulwich, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Children 
     1. Peek, Lydia,   b. 1857, Liverpool, Lancs Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1889  (Age 32 years)
     2. Peek, Francis Hedley,   b. 1858, Liverpool, Lancs Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jun 1904  (Age 46 years)
     3. Peek, Anne Meigh,   b. 1860, Liverpool, Lancs Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1884, 10 Mostyn Terrace, Eastbourne Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
     4. Peek, Mary Gertrude,   b. 1861,   d. 1921  (Age 60 years)
     5. Peek, Florence M,   b. C 1867, Roby, Staffordshire Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 5 Apr 2019 
    Family ID F372  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • In 1855, at the age of nineteen, he joined his father and others in the firm of Peek Bros and Winch of Liverpool as a junior partner. This firm then opened up in London at 23 Rood Lane, City, in direct competition with the original firm of Peek Bros & Co, tea brokers, of 20 Eastcheap, London, E.C. In 1874 Peek Bros and Winch moved to 3/4 Fenchurch Street, City. On the death of William Peek senior in 1870 Francis Peek became senior partner, and the London firm changed its name to Francis Peek, Winch & Co. In May 1895 a limited company was formed under the style of Peek Bros and Winch Ltd to incorporate the businesses of all the firms mentioned above. The head office of the new company was to be no. 20 Eastcheap, where Peek Bros and Co. had been established since c.1842; the building had been reconstructed in 1874 to form the present Peek House. This remained the head office of the company and its successor, Peek, Winch & Tod, Ltd, until recent years.

      Francis Peek was appointed first Chairman of Peek Brothers & Winch Ltd in 1895 and held the appointment until his death in 1899. His portrait was hung in the Board Room at Peek House. He was also Chairman of the Howard Association and the James Peek Trust for a number of years. He is reputed to have given over half a million pounds during his lifetime to charitable and religious causes. These included the building of four churches for his sons-in-law in Holy Orders. One of these churches was Holy Trinity, Beckenham, Kent, built in 1877/78 in memory of his parents, William and Mary Peek. Another portrait of Francis Peek hangs in the vestry there.

  • Sources 
    1. [S21] 1871 Census, Registrar Camberwell, (Ancestry.co.uk), ED 1, F 11, p 16 (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S341] 1891 Census, Registrar Margate, (Ancestry.co.uk), Folio 77, p34 (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S345] 1901 Census, Registrar Reigate, (PRO), folio 22 page 35 (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S75] 1861 Census, Registrar Wandsworth, ED4 F49 p1 (Reliability: 2).

    5. [S15] Free BMD Marriage, (Ancestry.co.uk), V 8b, p 668 (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S40] 1861 Census, Registrar Prescot, ED 3, R 17, p 20 (Reliability: 2).

    7. [S23] 1881 Census, Registrar Camberwell, (LDS 1881 British Census), Folio: 11; Page: 15 (Reliability: 2).


  

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