Peake played amateur cricket for sides in the Somerset area before and after the formation of Somerset County Cricket Club in 1875, and in many of them he was successful as a bowler, though both his bowling and his batting style are unknown.
He was educated at St Mary's Hall, Oxford and ordained as priest in 1872.
[3] He served as a curate in churches at Bishop's Hull, Taunton, at Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham and at Chatham, Kent.
[3] His first vicar's post was at Rochester and he moved back to Somerset in 1884 at Eastover, Bridgwater.
In 1887 he was appointed rector of Holford, which was a benefice in the gift of Eton College.