[3] He was the only surviving son of Samuel and his wife Anne, daughter of Benjamin Clarke, esq., of Stanley, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.

[2] After receiving a classical education at St. John's College, Cambridge,[4] he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and by the favour of the Duke of Devonshire, lord chamberlain, he was appointed one of the Grooms of the Privy Chamber and an Esquire of the king's household.

He was likewise the author of a pathetic elegy on his own recovery from a dangerous illness, and of some pleasant tales and epigrammatic poems.

[2] By his first wife, Martha, daughter of Dr. Henry Bourne, an eminent physician of Chesterfield, he had one son, Sir Christopher Pegge, M.D.

[7] quotes the following rhyme about them, entitled The Oxford medical trio: I would not call in any one of them all, For only "the weakest will go to the Wall"; The second, like Death, that scythe-armed mower, Will speedily make you a peg or two lower; While the third, with the fees he so silently earns, Is "the bourn whence no traveller ever returns".