Peacham, Henry

Peacham, Henry, 1576?–1643?, English author, b. Hertfordshire, educated at Cambridge. The Compleat Gentleman (1622), his best-known work, offers his formula for the ideal Englishman. Among his other writings is a treatise on art, The Gentleman's Exercise (1607).

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