Winifred Peck

Short Biography

Winifred Frances Peck (née Knox) (1882, Headington – 20 November 1962) (Lady Peck) was an author of literary fiction and biographies. She was a member of a remarkable family: her father was Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, the fourth Bishop of Manchester, and her siblings were E. V. Knox, editor of Punch, Ronald Knox, theologian and writer, Dilly Knox, cryptographer, Wilfred Lawrence Knox, clergyman, and Ethel Knox. Peck's niece was the Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Fitzgerald who wrote a biography of her father, E. V. Knox, and her uncles, entitled The Knox Brothers.