Author: Peers, Charles
Biography:
PEERS, Charles (1775-1853: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born in London on 30 June 1775 and baptised on 19 July at St. Andrew Holborn, the only son of Robert Peers, attorney of the Inner Temple, and his wife Mary Day(e), who had married in the same church in 1770. He was educated at Eton and St. John’s College Cambridge (matric. 1795, Scholar 1798, BA 1799, MA 1804). In 1800 he won the Members’ Prize and in 1805 the Seatonian with the earlier poem listed here. In 1810 he transferred to Oxford (DCL 1812). He had entered the Inner Temple in 1792 and been called to the Bar in 1802. He inherited the Chistlehampton Estate in 1818 and held various legal offices in Oxfordshire (High Sheriff 1821-2, Recorder of Henley-on-Thames 1822 and of Wallingford 1824, JP for Oxfordshire). On 20 Apr. 1826, at St. Mary’s, Bryanston Sq., London, he married Mary Lowth, the eldest daughter of Rev. Robert Lowth and granddaughter of Bishop Robert Lowth (1710-87), sometime Professor of Poetry at Oxford and author of the influential Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (1753 Latin, 1787 English). There was no issue. He died on 6 Feb. 1853 at Chislehampton Lodge, with the Estate passing to a cousin. (ancestry.co.uk 24 May 2022; findmypast.co.uk 24 May 2022; Hampshire Telegraph 1 May 1826; Morning Advertiser 10 Feb. 1853; GM May 1853, 1: 551-2) AA