Peter Peckard. Liberal Churchman and Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by John Walsh & Ronald Hyam.
New Series No. 1
Articles
Some Recollections of C.K. Ogden by I.A. Richards
Peter Peckard, Master 1781-1797 by J.D.W.
A Discovery in the College Library [A.7.23] by D.M.
Images
Sketch plan of the Benson Court
Notices of Deaths
Canon C.M. McAnally; Rev. T.C. Wild; Rev. H. Young; Rev. C.F. Hardy; T.L. Chadwick; Dr E. Higson; Capt. M.G.H. Fletcher; the Rev. F.A. Wilkinson; H. Howe; Sir Arthur Grimble; C.K. Ogden; R.H. Mayo; C. Mackenzie; Rev. R.K. Young; Dr F.C.O. Valentine; Lt. Col. G. Elwes; J. Wormald; W.J.C. Berington; L. Le Breton; H. Ashley Mason; J.C. Marshal; B.J.L. Flanagan; G.B. Davison; E.J.C. Murrell; M.R. McNeill Love; C.J. Glatz
News of the following clubs and societies
Amalgamation Club officers for the Boat Club, Cricket, Rugby, Football, Hockey, Squash, Lawn Tennis
Boat Club
Cricket
Rugby
Football
Hockey
Lawn Tennis
Squash
Sailing
Archery
Dramatic Club
Accounts for the Peckard Trust.
Accounts for the Peckard Trust.
Accounts for the Peckard Trust.
Indexed volume containing accounts for:
(1) Audit
(2) Building and Livings Fund
(3) Mynors Bright - Benefaction and Building Fund
(4) Bird property
(5) Composition Fund
(6) Charlesworth
(7) Davidson Prize Fund for Mathematics and Classics
(8) Donaldson - Bye Fellowship and Exhibitions
(9) Wilfred Austin Gill Benefaction
(10) Kingsley - Bye Fellowship and Lectureship
(11) Milner Benefaction
(12) Latimer Neville - Memorial and Exhibition
(13) Alfred Newton Prize Fund
(14) Open Scholarships
(15) Peckard Trust and Fund
(16) Pepysian Benefaction
(17) Francis Pattrick Benefaction
(18) Tutors
(19) Walton Benefaction
Indexed volume containing accounts for:
(1) Benefactions - Lord Anglesey, Groome, Milner, Peckard, Mynors Bright, Pattrick, Pepysian, Gill
(2) Payne's Augmentation
(3) Investments
(4) Compensation - LLanberis, Sutton and Whilloughby, Llangadwaldr
(5) Composition Fund
(6) Open Scholarships
(7) Tutor's balance
(8) Prizes - Walton
(9) Sale of land
Accounts of the Revd Samuel Lowe (Bursar) as receiver of the rents and profits of the freehold and copyhold estates of Peter Peckard.
Used in the case in Chancery between the plaintiffs William Gretton (Master), Fellows, and Revd Samuel Lowe (Bursar) and the defendants Richard Aldworth Griffin (Lord Braybrooke), John Robinson, John Smith, Martha Caldecot and Joseph Stephenson and wife, Richard Buck and Robert Sherard and John Ferrar.
Letter from the Hon. Sir John Griffin Griffin (Visitor) to Samuel Hey (President of Magdalene College)
Transcript
Sir,
I return you many thanks for your obliging attention in regard to poor Mr Wallop's death; who seems to have died from neglect of himself having been very unwell at times with faintings & violent oppressions upon his stomach without applying for relief.
If not too much trouble I shall esteem it a favour if you could give me a rough sketch of the profits & emoluments of the Master of Magdalen, how they arise & how they become due & at what period [see MACD/1/1/27].
When I inform you that I have offered the Mastership to my very old & amiable friend Mr Peckard I do it out of respect to your situation in the College, & to the character you have maintained in that office & I do assure you that you are the first person to whom i have conveyed my intentions. If Mr Peckard should accept, which I trust he will, yourself & the College will have a very worthy & ingenious gentleman to live with & whom other qualities will I am sure endear him to you all.
I cold have wished indeed on this occasion that Mr P. had been a Cambridge man but I trust every liberal mind will overlook this when put in competition with the rights due to a sincere & uninterrupted friendship of above thirty years standing.
I am etc etc etc etc
Letter from Samuel Hey (President of Magdalene College) to the Hon. Sir John Griffin Griffin (Visitor) explaining how he worked out the income of the Mastership which Sir John had requested in his letter [see MCAD/1/1/29]
He also says that he and the Fellows were not acquainted with Mr Peckard, but should he accept the Mastership they would endeavour to do everything in their power to make it as agreeable as possible. As Mr Peckard was not acquainted with the ways of the University he might find some trifling inconveniences at first. If Mr Peckard wished to see the College and Lodge or had any questions about the College before making his decision then he [Mr Hey] would assist.
Choral evensong and service of commemoration to mark the bicentenary of the death of Peter Peckard (1781-1797).
(1) Order of service for choral evensong in commemoration of the work of members of the College for the anti-slavery and early Human Rights Movement on the occasion of the bicentenary of the abolition of the British Atlantic Salve Trade.
(2) Accompanying booklet containing brief biographies and portrait of Revd Dr Peter Peckard, Charles Grant (Lord Glenelg), Sir Robert Grant, Revd Samuel Marsden, Sir George Stephen
Order of service for choral evensong commemoration of Peter Peckard (Master of Magdalene, 1781-1797) and leading campaigner against Slave Trade, held in St Giles' church.
Letter from Dr Peter Peckard to Mr Lombe, solicitor, as to the purchase of leasehold premises (relates to land in the parishes of St Giles and St Peter).
Declaration by Thomas Lombe that the messuages and pieces of ground conveyed to him by the indenture of feoffment of 10 April 1792 were conveyed in trust for the use of the Master and Fellows.
Parties (1) Jesus College, (2) Dr Peckard (Master of Magdalene College)
Indenture of feoffment of a messuage and premises in Bridge Street.
Parties (1) Corporation of Cambridge to (2) The Reverend Dr Peckard (Master of Magdalene College)
Indenture of feoffment of a piece of waste ground in the parish of St Peter's, Cambridge, behind the brewhouse belonging to the messuage and premises late of Jesus College and also the lane lying between the said messuages and Magdalene College.
Parties: (1) Dr Peter Peckard (Master of Magdalene College), (2) Mr Nathaniel Wedd
Draft lease for a piece of waste ground in the parish of St Peter's, Cambridge, behind the brewhouse belonging to the messuage and premises late of Jesus College and also the lane lying between the said messuages and Magdalene College.
At a meeting of the Governing Body on 9 October 1924 the Revd F. H. H. Clark (Chaplain of the College) and lecturer in History was elected into a Fellowship. It was agreed that the Fellowship should be called the Peckard Fellowship in commemoration of the bequest made to the College by Dr Peckard in 1812 which had become available for the use of the College. It was also agreed that the December Feast should be known as the Peckard Feast [Ref: MCGB/4/2/3].
This dinner was discontinued in the 1960s.
There is currently a new Peckard Dinner which is where the winner of the Peckard Prize dines at High Table one night along with the Master, the Senior Tutor, Development Director and the Senior Tutor and/or Master of the winner’s College.
Menus from:
1925, 1927, 1928
1937, 1938
1945, 1948
1954, 1958
1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1967