High Sheriff lieutenant of Derbyshire
Pegge Burnell was born Broughton Benjamin Steade to a Yorkshire family. His father Thomas Steade had married Millicent the daughter of Strelly Pegge of Beauchief Abbey in Derbyshire (later Boundary changes have now put the Abbey inside the city of Sheffield boundary).
He was High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire and a magistrate for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. And they had Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell. Edward married in 1836 Harriet daughter of Hugh Parker of Woodthorpe near Sheffield.
He also carried out alterations to the family home that year and had his new initials added to the entrance.
Pegge Burnell served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1839. He died aged 76 in Regent Street London.
