Peter Buck (mayor)

Sir Peter Buck (died 1625)[1] was an English mayor and naval official.

Career
Eastgate House Rochester

In the 1590s, Buck was Mayor of Rochester and Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham Dockyard.[2] Eastgate House, a Grade I listed Elizabethan townhouse in Rochester, Kent, was built for him.

From 1596, he held the post of Clerk of the Navy (also known as Clerk of the ships) and was knighted by James I in 1603. He also served as Secretary to Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland and Lord High Admiral.[3]

Death

He died in 1625 and was survived by his wife Frances, the only daughter of William Knight, and daughter Margaret.[4][5] He was referred to as "The Worshipful Sir Peter".[6]

See also

References
  1. "Rochester". Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. "East Gate House". Medway Council. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  3. "Sir Peter Buck". Pepysdiary.com. 14 December 2003. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  4. Ireland, William H. (1829). Englands Topographer: Or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent. Virtue. p. 147.
  5. Wotton, Thomas (1741). The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing: Their Descents, Marriages, and Issues ... T. Wotton. p. 210.
  6. Arnold, A. A. (1914). "The Poll Tax in Rochester, September 1660". Archaeologia Cantiana. Kent Archaeological Society. 30: 12. open access
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