Peskett, Victor

On his retirement from a career as English teacher and headmaster, Victor Peskett settled in Metfield, Suffolk, UK. The village itself, its medieval church and the author's own home, the old Huntsman and Hounds inn, yielded much to stimulate a historian's curiosity and offered Peskett many opportunities for study. Further afield, after establishing exchange visits with the townsfolk of Medfield, Mass, USA, he researched and recorded the birthplaces of those early emigrants from East Anglia to New England who founded the Massachusetts town. Peskett's interest in the Metfield Guardians owed some...