He returned to Christ Church, was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy there in 1790, and proceeded M.D.
[1] On 9 November 1790, Pegge became physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1795.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians on 25 June 1796, delivered the Harveian oration in 1805, and became a censor in 1817.
[1] Pegge left Oxford in 1816, and took a house in George Street, Hanover Square, for his health.
He attended in the university, in accordance with the statutes, and died in Oxford, after an asthmatic seizure, on 3 August 1822.