Richard Peake

(1759-1829)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Peake, Richard NRA: Peake Richard (fl 1780-1812) Treasurer of Drury Lane Theatre LBT ID: RiPeake1829 VIAF ID: 73586595 LOC ID: no2005051021	B/BAP: 1759 DIED: 1829-01-10
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine 145 (April 1829) 286; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
For forty years treasurer of Drury Lane Theater; he was the father of the dramatist (and Drury Lane treasurer) Richard Brinsley Peake.
REFERENCES TO Richard Peake: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Past Times Found 1: ¶ 4 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R & T Sheridan VIII Found 1: ¶ 4