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Henry Peacham 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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Peacham, Henry (1578–?1643), is remembered for The Compleat Gentleman (1622). Dr Johnson drew all the heraldic definitions in his dictionary from the 1661 edition.

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