“ PEACHAM, HENRY (c. 1576–c. 1643) , English writer, was the son of Henry Peacham, curate of North Mimms, Hertfordshire, and author of a book on rhetoric called the Garden of Rhetoric (1577) . The elder Peacham became in 1597 rector of Leverton, Lincolnshire. The son was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1594–1595 and M A. in 1598. He was for some time a schoolmaster at Wyrnondham, Norfolk, but settled in London in 1612, earning his living as tutor to young men preparing for the universities. ”