Thomas Peckham

Sir Thomas Peckham (1691-1724) was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Sussex.

On 6 April 1715 he entered into a marriage settlement, on 9 May 1715 he obtained a licence and on 11 May 1715 at the church of the Holy Trinity in Bosham he married Elizabeth (1676-1733), daughter of Barnham Dobell and his wife Grisel.

[2] From his maternal grandfather he inherited the estate of Nyton at Aldingbourne, where he served as churchwarden in 1716.

[3] In December 1721 he was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex[4][5] and on 31 August 1722 he was knighted at the house of Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough.

Richard Peckham, christened on 14 May 1717 at the church of St Mary in Aldingbourne, entered New College, Oxford in 1734 but died without marrying on 30 August 1742 and was buried at Arundel.