Sir Christopher Pegge M.D. (1765–1822) was an English physician. Christopher Pegge Agar

Life

The son of Samuel Pegge the younger, by his first wife, he was born in London. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a commoner on 18 April 1782, and graduated B.A. on 23 February 1786. He was elected a Fellow of

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in 1788, and graduated M.A. and M.B. there on 10 June and 18 July 1789. He returned to Christ Church, was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy there in 1790, and proceeded M.D. on 27 April 1792. On 9 November 1790 Pegge became physician to the

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, and a

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in 1795. He was knighted on 26 June 1799, and in 1801 was appointed

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. He was elected a fellow of the

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on 25 June 1796, delivered the

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in 1805, and became a censor in 1817. Pegge left Oxford in 1816, and took a house in George Street, Hanover Square, for his health. Soon afterwards he moved on to

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. He had resigned his readership in 1816, but retained the regius professorship. He attended in the university, in accordance with the statutes, and died in Oxford, after an asthmatic seizure, on 3 August 1822. He was master of

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, and was buried in

Ewelme Ewelme () is a village and civil parish in the Chiltern Hills in South Oxfordshire, north-east of the market town of Wallingford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,048. To the east of the village is Cow Common and to the ...

church, where he had an epitaph in the south aisle.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Pegge, Christopher 1765 births 1822 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Medical doctors from London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Deaths from asthma Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 19th-century English medical doctors Regius Professors of Medicine (University of Oxford)