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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Cuthbert Edgar
| name = Peek
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = Bart., MA, FSA
| image = File:Peek,_Cuthbert_Edgar.jpg
| birth_date = 1855
| death_date = 1901
| address = Wimbledon House, Wimbledon [1885]<br />[and] Rousdon, Lyme Regis [1888]<br />25 Bryanston Square, W; and Rousdeon, Lyme Regis [1894]<br />22 Belgrave Square, SW; and Rousdon, Lyme Regis [1897]<br />
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1885.02.10
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1901 deceased
| clubs = Carlton Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Astronomical Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Meteorological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1890 Member<br />AI Council 1891 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1892 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1893 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1894 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1895 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1896 Vice President<br />AI Council 1897 Vice President<br />AI Council 1898 Vice President<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1901 Member<br /><br />
=== House Notes ===
1885.01.27 proposed
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PEEK, 1855 - 1901 <br />Cuthbert Edgar PEEK was born on month day 1855, to Henry William PEEK and Margaret Maria PEEK (born EDGAR). <br />Henry was born on February 26 1825, in London. <br />Margaret was born in 1828, in Surrey. <br />Cuthbert married Augusta Louisa PEEK (born BRODRICK) on month day 1884, at age 28. <br />Augusta was born circa 1854, in London. <br />They had 7 children: Wilfrid PEEK, Roger Grenville PEEK and 5 other children. <br />Cuthbert lived in from 1889 to 1897, at address. <br />He lived in month 1901, at address. <br />Cuthbert passed away on month day 1901, at age 46 at death place. <br />He was buried at burial place.<br /><br />Born Wimbledon; died Brighton. Only child of Sir Henry William Peek (1825-98), 1st Baronet, who created a museum at Rousdon, Devon. Sir Henry was a partner in a firm of colonial merchants and MP for East Surrey (1868-84). Wife was Augusta Louisa (qv), also a Fellow of the AI. He took courses in astronomy and surveying after coming down from Cambridge. All his astronomical work, including trips to Iceland and Australasia were self-funded. He gave objects to his father’s museum. 2nd baronet<br /><br />Henry’s son Cuthbert (no-one is ever called Cuthbert anymore) was a keen scientist and maintained an important astronomical and meteorological observatory at Rousdon. He employed as Observer a popular, humorous man called Charles Grover, who was also a keen photographer, and was known locally as “The Star Man”. Cuthbert was also a director of the Axminster to Lyme Regis Light Railway Company, which built the Cannington viaduct and made it possible to travel from Lyme to London on the train in 3 hours and 26 minutes. The Peeks used it every day in season to send fresh fish, fruit and flowers up to their London property.<br />After Cuthbert died of congestion of the brain, he was succeeded by Sir Wilfrid Peek, who bought Rousdon’s neighbouring parish of Combpyne in 1909. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
PRM
| first_name = Cuthbert Edgar
| name = Peek
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = Bart., MA, FSA
| image = File:Peek,_Cuthbert_Edgar.jpg
| birth_date = 1855
| death_date = 1901
| address = Wimbledon House, Wimbledon [1885]<br />[and] Rousdon, Lyme Regis [1888]<br />25 Bryanston Square, W; and Rousdeon, Lyme Regis [1894]<br />22 Belgrave Square, SW; and Rousdon, Lyme Regis [1897]<br />
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1885.02.10
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1901 deceased
| clubs = Carlton Club
| societies = Society of Antiquaries<br />Royal Astronomical Society<br />Royal Geographical Society<br />Royal Meteorological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
AI Council 1886 Member<br />AI Council 1887 Member<br />AI Council 1888 Member<br />AI Council 1889 Member<br />AI Council 1890 Member<br />AI Council 1891 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1892 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1893 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1894 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1895 Hon. Secretary<br />AI Council 1896 Vice President<br />AI Council 1897 Vice President<br />AI Council 1898 Vice President<br />AI Council 1899 Member<br />AI Council 1900 Member<br />AI Council 1901 Member<br /><br />
=== House Notes ===
1885.01.27 proposed
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PEEK, 1855 - 1901 <br />Cuthbert Edgar PEEK was born on month day 1855, to Henry William PEEK and Margaret Maria PEEK (born EDGAR). <br />Henry was born on February 26 1825, in London. <br />Margaret was born in 1828, in Surrey. <br />Cuthbert married Augusta Louisa PEEK (born BRODRICK) on month day 1884, at age 28. <br />Augusta was born circa 1854, in London. <br />They had 7 children: Wilfrid PEEK, Roger Grenville PEEK and 5 other children. <br />Cuthbert lived in from 1889 to 1897, at address. <br />He lived in month 1901, at address. <br />Cuthbert passed away on month day 1901, at age 46 at death place. <br />He was buried at burial place.<br /><br />Born Wimbledon; died Brighton. Only child of Sir Henry William Peek (1825-98), 1st Baronet, who created a museum at Rousdon, Devon. Sir Henry was a partner in a firm of colonial merchants and MP for East Surrey (1868-84). Wife was Augusta Louisa (qv), also a Fellow of the AI. He took courses in astronomy and surveying after coming down from Cambridge. All his astronomical work, including trips to Iceland and Australasia were self-funded. He gave objects to his father’s museum. 2nd baronet<br /><br />Henry’s son Cuthbert (no-one is ever called Cuthbert anymore) was a keen scientist and maintained an important astronomical and meteorological observatory at Rousdon. He employed as Observer a popular, humorous man called Charles Grover, who was also a keen photographer, and was known locally as “The Star Man”. Cuthbert was also a director of the Axminster to Lyme Regis Light Railway Company, which built the Cannington viaduct and made it possible to travel from Lyme to London on the train in 3 hours and 26 minutes. The Peeks used it every day in season to send fresh fish, fruit and flowers up to their London property.<br />After Cuthbert died of congestion of the brain, he was succeeded by Sir Wilfrid Peek, who bought Rousdon’s neighbouring parish of Combpyne in 1909. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
PRM