Note.—Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder and Habron was released 18 March 1879. Did Peace commit the Whalley Range murder (Manchester 1879).
His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames Embankment.
PEACE, John (son of Peter Peace). bapt. St. Peter’s ch. Bristol 8 Dec. 1785; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb. for some terms; an acquaintance of Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; keeper of the city library Bristol for 40 years: edited Sir T. Browne’s Religio medici, with resemblant passages from Cowper’s Task 1844; author of An apology for cathedral service, anon. 1839; A descant on the penny postage, signed XAP 1841; A descant upon railroads, signed XAP 1842. d. Swiss cottage, Durdham downs, Clifton 28 March 1861. Axiomata Pacis by J. Peace (1862) anon., memoir pp. v–xxi; G.M. x 577 (1861).
PEACE, Maskell William. b. 1834; solicitor Wigan 1855 to death; town clerk of Wigan 1866–85; sec. to Mining association of Great Britain; sec. of the Wigan coal and iron co.; sec. of the Lancashire association; great supporter of Wigan mining industry; author of South Lancashire and Cheshire coal association, report on private bills 1885; The coal mines regulation act 1888. d. Lynwood, Southport 9 Nov. 1892.
PEACH, Charles William (son of Charles Wm. Peach, yeoman). b. Wansford, Northamptonshire 30 Sept. 1800; a coastguardman at Weybourne, Norfolk Jany. 1824, at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to 1845; employed in the customs at Fowey, 1845–9, at Peterhead 1849–53, at Wick 1853, retired on a pension 1861; discovered many new species of sponges, cælenterates and molluscs; discovered fish remains in the Devonian rocks of the south west, and fossils which determined the age of the quartzites of Gorran Haven, and of the Durness limestone of Sutherlandshire; received Neill medal from royal society of Edinburgh 1875; author of 71 papers. d. Haddington place, Leith walk, Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1886. Nature 11 March 1886 pp. 446–7; Academy xxix 171 (1886).
PEACH, William. b. 1796; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; Hulsean prizeman 1818; fellow of St. John’s 20 March 1820 to 1823; P.C. of Brampton, Derbyshire 7 Jany. 1826 to death; rural dean of Brampton 1836; author of The probable influence of revelation on the writings of heathen philosophers, Hulsean essay 1819; Themis, a satire 1853; Cwm Dhu or the Black Dingle, and other poems 1853. d. Brampton 31 Jany. 1867.
PEACOCK, Sir Barnes (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitor and messenger to the great seal, d. 1839). b. 1810; practised as special pleader 1831–6; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1836, bencher 10 May 1850 to death, reader 1864; one of the counsel for Daniel O’Connell in his appeal to the house of lords Aug. 1844; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; legal member of supreme council of the viceroy of India at Calcutta 2 April 1852 to April 1859; chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 1859–70; vice-president of legislative council of India June 1859; knighted by patent 26 May 1859; P.C. 6 July 1870; a paid member of judicial committee of privy council 10 June 1872 to death. d. 40 Cornwall gardens, Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1890. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 250–7; I.L.N. 20 Dec. 1890 p. 771 portrait; Pictorial world 18 Dec. 1890 p. 772 portrait; Saturday Review lxx 675 (1890); Times 4 Dec. 1890 pp. 8 and 14.
PEACOCK, Dimitri Rudolf (son of Charles Peacock, estate manager). b. village of Shakmanovka, district of Kozlov in the government of Tambov, Russia 26 Sept. 1842; educ. at a school in England and univ. of Moscow; British vice-consul at Batoum 25 Oct. 1881, consul 27 Jany. 1890, consul general at Odessa 14 Oct. 1891 to death; author of Original vocabularies of five west Caucasian languages, Georgian, Mingrelian, Lazian, Svanetian, and Apkhazian in the Journal of Royal Asiatic society for 1877, pp. 145–56; wrote a book on the Caucasus, which has not been published. d. Odessa 23 May 1892. Times 17 June 1892 p. 8.
PEACOCK, Elizabeth, who was a Miss Stone. b. 1772; m. John William Peacock, cooper; successor to Johanna Southcott 1814; issued a proclamation to the believers in the divine mission of Johanna Southcott to attend their parish churches 3 June 1864; issued one number of The Morning Star Dec. 1864. d. 49 Westmoreland road, St. Peter’s, Walworth, Surrey 10 March 1875, aged 103.
PEACOCK, Frederick Barnes (eld. son of sir Barnes Peacock 1810–90). b. 1836; educ. Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1 Feb. 1857, registrar of the high court May 1864; student I.T. 16 April 1866, barrister 9 June 1880; officiating secretary to board of revenue Bengal Nov. 1871; a magistrate and collector July 1873; comr. of the Dacca division April 1878 to 1881, and of the Presidency division May 1881 to 1883; chief secretary to government of Bengal for the judicial, political and appointments departments March 1883 to 1890; an acting member of board of revenue 1884, member 1887–90, when he retired on annuity; C.S.I. 21 May 1890. d. on board the Britannia off Sicily 14 April 1894. Times 25 April 1894 p. 10.