"[1]Mrs Copperfield then explains that Peggotty is known by her surname to avoid confusion with herself as they share the same first name.

Peggotty has been played by Daisy May Cooper (2019), Judy Cornwell (2000), Pauline Quirke (1999), Jenny McCracken (1986), Pat Keen (1974), Lila Kaye (1966), Elsa Vazzoler (1965), Barbara Ogilvie (1958), Jessie Ralph (1935), and Karen Caspersen (1922).

He lives in a converted boat on the beach at Yarmouth with Emily, Ham, and Mrs Gummidge.

A big and simple fisherman and boatbuilder, Ham Peggotty is the orphaned nephew of Clara and Daniel Peggotty and is the fiancé of Emily, to whom he became engaged on the visit of David Copperfield and Steerforth to the boat house at Great Yarmouth.

[5] "He was a huge, strong fellow of six feet high, broad in proportion, and round-shouldered; but with a simpering boy's face and curly light hair that gave him quite a sheepish look.