30 May 1809: Death of Samuel Peech, legendary coach proprietor, of the Angel Inn, Sheffield
William White. 1833. History, guide, and description of the borough of Sheffield, and the town and parish of Rotherham. Sheffield: William White. Get it:
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Mr. Samuel Peech, of whom so many humorous anecdotes are told in Sheffield, died May 30th, aged 70. He kept the Angel Inn thirty years, and was one of the most spirited coach proprietors in the kingdom, sometimes carrying his opposition so far as not only to convey persons to London, etc. for nothing, but to treat them with a bottle of wine for honouring his coach in preference to that of his opponent…
On August 20th [1810], at the sale of the late Mr. Peech’s property, at the Angel Inn, an old brass candlestick sold for £6; an old two-armed elm chair (in which Mr. Peech usually sat in the bar) for five guineas, and a set of casters for £24. The Angel Inn, a large ancient stone building, was pulled down, and rebuilt soon afterwards.
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Abbreviations:
- ER: East Riding
- GM: Greater Manchester
- NR: North Riding
- NY: North Yorkshire
- SY: South Yorkshire
- WR: West Riding
- WY: West Yorkshire
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Various stories are told of Samuel Peach/Peech, of which the most blatantly false is the Irish journalist Robert Shelton Mackenzie’s “Ensign Simmonds, of the Tenth” – Peech died before Waterloo and at the age of 70, so that he probably didn’t have a young daughter (Mackenzie 1850). Is there any truth in the rest of the story? For example, Peech did appear to have serious agricultural opinions, suggesting land ownership.
Apparently contrasting portraits were made by James Ramsay and Francis Chantrey, but I have been unable to locate them.
Samuel Peech junior was a remarkable and legend-prone Sheffield vet who died in Godalming, Surrey in 1857 aged 73.
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Mr. Samuel Peech, of whom so many humorous anecdotes are told in Sheffield, died May 30th, aged 70. He kept the Angel Inn thirty years, and was one of the most spirited coach proprietors in the kingdom, sometimes carrying his opposition so far as not only to convey persons to London, etc. for nothing, but to treat them with a bottle of wine for honouring his coach in preference to that of his opponent…
On August 20th [1810], at the sale of the late Mr. Peech’s property, at the Angel Inn, an old brass candlestick sold for £6; an old two-armed elm chair (in which Mr. Peech usually sat in the bar) for five guineas, and a set of casters for £24. The Angel Inn, a large ancient stone building, was pulled down, and rebuilt soon afterwards.
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