Pegler lived at Grade II* Amcott House, Grove Street, Retford (now the site of Bassetlaw Museum) until his death in 1900, after which his widow remained there until she died in 1904.
[1] Pegler was the founder of a what later became an important manufacturing company in the North of England and was a pioneer of the rubber industry.
Originally working as a merchant, he acquired the Victoria Works in Retford, Nottinghamshire in 1870, which had been producing a type of linoleum and in 1871 formed the Northern Rubber Company in Retford to make India Rubber Products.
Initially the company made hose, protective aprons, rubber sheets, and hot water bottles.
Nicholson states (p58) that Alfred resided in Sutton Manor and later Amcott House.