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PEACHAM, HENRY (c. 1576-c. 1643) , English writer, was the son of Henry Peacham, curate of North Mimms, Hertford-shire, and author of a book on rhetoric called the Garden of Rhetoric (1577). The elder Peacham became in 1597 rector of Leverton, Lincolnshire. The son was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge , where he graduated B.A. in 15941595 and M.A. in 1598. He was for some time a schoolmaster at Wymondham, Norfolk, but settled in London in 1612, earning his living as tutor to young men preparing for the universities. His first book was Graphite (x6o6), a treatise on pen and water-colour drawing, which, as The Gentleman
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governor of Utrecht, was, he says, a " little academy," where he met soldiers and scholars of all nationalities. When he returned to London he was accused of libel on the king. Incriminating papers had been discovered in the house
rector of Hinton Saint George, who, on being charged with an attack on the king denied theauthorship, stating that they were written by a namesake, " a divine, a scholar and a traveller." The change was, however, easily rebutted. Peacham had many friends in London, among them Thomas Dowland the musician, Inigo Jones, and Edward Wright
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His other works include: Minerva Britanna (1612), dedicated to Henry, prince of Wales; The Period of Mourning (1613), in honour of the same prince; Thalia's Banquet (1620), a book of epigrams; The Art of Living in London (1642), and The Worth of a Peny (1641), &c. There is a nearly complete collection of Peacham's works in the Bodleian, Oxford. Harleian MS. 6855 contains a translation by Peacham of James I.'s Basilicon doron into Latin verse, written in his own hand and ornamented with pen and ink drawings. His Compleat Gentleman was edited by G. S. Gordon in 1906 for the Clarendon Press; the Art of Living is reprinted in the Harleian Misc. ix.; The Worth of a Peny in E. Arber's English Garner (vol. vi. 1883). End of Article: PEACHAM, HENRY (c. 1576-c. 1643) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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