Author: Peele, Edward
Biography:
PEELE, Edward (1789-1849: ancestry.co.uk)
His birth, baptism, parentage, and education cannot be established with any certainty. He was employed as a legal clerk for over forty years at Clayton and Dunn (Solicitors) in Newcastle. In the 1841 Census he is recorded as a clerk, born in county, living in Newcastle with a William Peele, aged 20, who may have been his son. If that is the case, he may have been the Edward Peele who married Mary Byrne on 16 Oct. 1817 at St. Andrew, Newcastle, the same parish he was in in 1841 and at his death, but there is nothing to corroborate this. He died on 5 May 1849 at Mountain’s Court, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, aged 60, and was buried on 8 May at St. Margaret of Antioch, Durham. The Phantom City (1831), his only known collection, consists of ordinary shorter poems but the lead poem, “The Phantom City,” set in India and written, oddly, in quatrains in cantos with Byronic influences, is not without interest as a middle-aged legal clerk’s exotic musings. (Newcastle Courant 24 Dec. 1831, 11 May 1849; Newcastle Journal 12 May 1849; ancestry.co.uk 19 Oct. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 19 Oct. 2022) AA