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Hugh Adderley Peck was born in Montreal on December 5, 1888. He was the son of Mary Alice Skelton Peck (1855-1943), one of the founders of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild and a leading figure in Montreal's arts and crafts scene, and business owner James Henry Peck (1851-1903). He had six siblings: Esmond, James Bauman, Hester, Harry, Stuart and Brian Peck.

In 1908, along with Owen Dawson and Percy Douglas, he founded the Nazareth Street Boys Club, which later became the Griffintown Club, a community recreational organization for youth.

The following year, he travelled to James Bay and Ungava Bay on the steamer Adventure, which was owned by the Revillon Frères company.

In 1911, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in architecture, a field in which he worked his entire life. Prior to the First World War, he worked with the firm Brown and Vallance, and then joined Barott, Blackader& Webster. In 1928, he drew up the plans for the renovation and extension of the Thomas Brunet heritage house for his brother James Bauman Peck.

On June 4, 1913, he married Edith Madeleine Kohl (1888-1953) in Montreal. In 1915, he was deployed to Great Britain as a pilot for the Royal Naval Air Service, and then the Royal Air Force. He rose up the ranks, becoming a captain, and was awarded the British War Medal. While in England, he had two sons: Hugh Sands Hamilton Peck in 1916 and George Richard Hamilton Peck in 1918.

After the war, Peck returned to Montreal and opened his own architectural practice. An amateur painter as well, he was president of the Montreal Arts Club in 1927.

In 1941, Peck became an engineer in the Works and Building Division at No. 3 Training Command, for the Royal Canadian Air Force, until his health began to decline. He died May 3, 1945, in his Westmount home.