page_title: Henry Peek
section_title: Parents, marriage and residence
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Peek / Parents, marriage and residence
caption_attribution_description: English: Wimbledon House confirming at end of high street unlike Wimbledon Park House c.1900 demolished
context_page_description: Sir Henry William Peek, 1st Baronet DL was an importer of spices, tea and other groceries, philanthropist and Conservative Member of Parliament.
context_section_description: Peek was born in 1825 to James Peek of Watcombe, Torquay, Devon and Elizabeth, his first wife.
  He married in 1848, Margaret Maria (d 1884), second daughter of William Edgar of Clapham Common, Surrey.  
  Wimbledon House, Wimbledon Village stood near the west end of its short High Street, about ¹⁄₂ mile (0.80 km) west of the parish church. It was probably built about the middle of the 18th century. It housed Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé in some of his final years (died 1818), MP Joseph Marryat then after a time Peek. It was demolished about 1900-1902 passing to a building syndicate.
caption: Position and size of his Georgian dominant house at the west end of its short high street and south of the extremely large Wimbledon Park, soon generally carved out around its edges into smaller mansions and the tennis venue.
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