PEACOCK, George (youngest son of Thomas Peacock 1756–1851, perpetual curate of Denton, near Darlington 50 years). b. Thornton hall, Denton 9 April 1791; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. 21 Feb. 1809, scholar 12 April 1812, fellow 1814–39; second wrangler and second Smith’s prizeman 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, D.D. 1839; lecturer in mathematics at Trin. coll. 1815, joint tutor 1823–35, sole tutor 1835–9; moderator 1816–7, 1818–9 and 1820–1, and introducer of the symbols of differentiation into the papers set in the senate house 1816–7; one of the syndics for building the new observatory 1817, and for building the Fitzwilliam museum 1835; F.R S. 29 Jany. 1818, member of council 30 Nov. 1836, vice-president; F.R.A.S. 1820, F.G.S.; Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge Jany. 1837 to death; dean of Ely 7 May 1839 to death, installed 22 May, raised a large sum of money for restoration of the cathedral; prolocutor of the lower house of convocation 1841–7 and 1852–7; R. of Wentworth, near Ely 1847 to death; member of commission of enquiry into statutes of Cambridge university 1850, and of commission for making new statutes for the univ. and colleges 1855; author of A collection of examples of applications of the differential and integral calculus 1820; A treatise on algebra 1830; Syllabus of a course of lectures upon trigonometry and the application of algebra to geometry 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A treatise on algebra, 2 vols. 1842–5; Life of Thomas Young, M.D. 1855; edited vols. 1 and 2 of Young’s works 1855. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 8 Nov. 1858. bur. Ely cemetery. Proc. of Royal soc. ix 536–43 (1858); G.M. April 1859 pp. 426–8.
PEACOCK, George (son of Richard George Peacock, a master in the navy). b. Starcross, near Exeter 1805; entered navy 1828; master of the Medea steamer in the Mediterranean 21 Sept. 1835; made a survey of the isthmus of Corinth, marking line of a possible canal, presented with a gold snuff-box by king Otho 1836, and received order of the Redeemer of Greece 1882; resigned the navy 1840; superintended the building of the steamers of the Pacific steam navigation company, commanded the first steamer which he took through the Strait of Magellan, acted as the company’s marine superintendent 1841–6; started a company under style of Peacock and Buchan for manufacture of an anti-fouling composition for the bottoms of iron ships 1848; dockmaster at Southampton 1848–58; a shipowner at Starcross from 1858; commanded an unsuccessful expedition to the Sahara for the discovery of nitrates 1860; took out a patent for chain cables 1873; edited Handbook of Abyssinia 1867; author of A treatise on ships’ cables, with the history of chains, their use and abuse 1873; The resources of Peru 1874, 4 ed. 1874; On the supply of nitrate of soda and guano from Peru 1878. d. at house of his son-in-law Henry Cookson, 16 Holly road, Fairfield, Liverpool 6 June 1883. bur. Starcross.
PEACOCK, John Macleay (7 child of Wm. Peacock of Kincardine, Perthshire). b. Kincardine 31 March 1817; a boiler-maker; employed at Laird’s iron shipbuilding works at Birkenhead some years; a chartist and secularist; a newsvendor; author of Poems and songs 1864; Hours of reverie 1867. d. Glasgow 4 May 1877. Selections of verse, edited by W. Lewin (1880) portrait.
PEACOCK, Mark Beauchamp. b. 1794 or 1795; solicitor in London 1819 to death; solicitor to the general post office 1825 to death. d. Southwood, Highgate 19 June 1862.
PEACOCK, Richard (7 son of Ralph Peacock, superintendent of mines, d. 1843). b. Swaledale, North Riding of Yorkshire 9 April 1820; apprentice to Fenton, Murray, and Jackson, locomotive makers, Leeds 1834–8; locomotive superintendent Leeds and Selby railway 1838–40; worked under sir David Gooch on Great Western railway 1840–1; locomotive superintendent Manchester and Sheffield railway 1841–54, and builder of the Gorton locomotive depôt, Manchester; partner with Charles Beyer as locomotive and machine tool makers at Gorton 1854, with works covering 14 acres; experimented on the blast pipe and locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1849; a founder of the Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.P. Gorton 1885 to death. d. Gorton hall, Manchester 3 March 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii 404–7 (1889); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 271–4 (1890) portrait; Figaro 9 March 1889 p. 9 portrait.
PEACOCK, Thomas Bevill (son of Thomas Peacock, merchant). b. York 21 Dec. 1812; apprentice to J. Fothergill, surgeon, Darlington 1828–33; studied at Univ. college, London, and at St. George’s hospital 1833–5; M.R.C.S. 1835; L.S.A. 1835; went two voyages to Ceylon 1835–6; house surgeon to the hospital at Chester 1838–42; M.D. Edinb. 1842; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1850, Croonian lecturer 1865; founded a dispensary in Liverpool st. London, which became the City of London hospital for diseases of the chest, physician to the hospital 1848; assistant physician to St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1849, physician 1862, retired 1877; dean of the medical school, delivered lectures on medicine to the nurses; a founder of the Pathological society of London 1846, secretary 1850, vice-president 1852–6, president 1865–6; member Med. and Chir. soc. 1845, sec. 1855–6, referee 1857–65, vice-president 1867; author of On the influenza or epidemic catarrh fever of 1847–8, 1848; On malformations of the human heart 1858, 2 ed. 1866; On French millstone makers’ phthisis 1862; On the prognosis in cases of valvular diseases of the heart 1877; and of many papers in medical periodicals; gave his preparations of cardiac diseases and malformations to Hunterian museum. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 31 May 1882. bur. Friends’ ground at Tottenham. St. Thomas’s hospital reports xi 179–85 (1882); Medico-Chirurgical transactions (1883) 20–3.
PEACOCK, Thomas Love (only child of Samuel Peacock of St. Paul’s church yard, London, glass merchant, d. 1788). b. Weymouth, Dorset 18 Oct. 1785; secretary to sir H. R. Popham on board the fleet before Flushing 1808–9; made the acquaintance of Shelley at Nant Gwillt, North Wales 1812, Shelley’s executor 1822; clerk in East India house 1819, assistant examiner of correspondence 1822, chief examiner 1836, retired on a pension March 1856; author of The monks of St. Mark 1804; Palmyra 1806; The genius of the Thames 1810, 3 ed. 1817; The philosophy of melancholy 1812; Sir Proteus. By P. M. O’Donovan, Esq. 1814; Headlong hall 1816, anon.; Melincourt 1817, 2 ed. 1856; Rhododaphne, or the Thessalian spell 1818; Nightmare abbey 1818; Maid Marian 1822, dramatised by Planche as an opera and produced at Covent Garden 3 Dec. 1822; The misfortunes of Elphin 1829; Crotchet Castle 1831, new ed. 1887; Paper money lyrics and other poems 1837; Gryll Grange 1861; and two translations, Gl’ingannati, The deceived, a comedy performed at Siena 1851, and Ælia Laelia Crispis 1862. d. Lower Halliford, near Shepperton, Middlesex 23 Jany. 1866. bur. new cemet. Shepperton. Macmillan’s Mag. liii 414–27 (1886); Temple bar lxxx 35–52 (1887); G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 111–50; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 417–26 (1883); St. James’s mag. Sept. 1875 pp. 332, 600–10; H. Cole’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 3 vols. (1875), memoir in i, xxv–lii portrait; R. Garnett’s Works of T. L. Peacock, 10 vols. (1891) memoir in x 7–43.
Note.—He married 20 March 1820 Jane Gryffydh, known as the Caernarvonshire nymph and ‘the Beauty of Caernarvonshire,’ she is celebrated by Shelley as the Snowdonian Antelope, and d. 1852. W. M. Rossetti’s Poetical works of P. B. Shelley ii 322 (1878), in Letter to Maria Gisborne line 240.
PEACOCKE, George John. b. 3 April 1825; ensign 16 foot 8 July 1842, lieut. col. 18 Oct. 1859, placed on h.p. 2 July 1870; A.A.G. North Britain 15 July 1871 to 31 Jany. 1876; lieut. col. brigade depôt 12 April 1876, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. 23 Lowndes sq. London 15 Dec. 1895.
PEAKE, Thomas Ladd (son of sir Henry Peake, surveyor of the navy). b. 1785; entered navy 1798; served in Walcheren expedition 1809; as first lieut. in the Victorious took part in action with the Rivoli 21 Feb. 1812; special magistrate at Cape of Good Hope 4 years; inspecting commander of coastguard 31 Aug. 1820 to 1825; captain 1 March 1822, retired 1 Oct. 1846, rear-admiral 7 Oct. 1852, vice-admiral 28 Nov. 1857, admiral 27 April 1863. d. Cumberland st. London 19 Jany. 1865.