page_title: Ponsonby Peacocke
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Ponsonby Peacocke / Family
caption_attribution_description: Stephen Peacocke Sr.
context_page_description: Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke was a British officer of the Bombay Army and an artist notable for his 17 paintings of historic landscape views in the Nilgiri Hills in South India. Tinted lithographs were made of these views and published in imperial folio in London by the lithographer Paul Gauci in 1847. Peacocke's lithographs reflect the romantic escape to a temperate hilly area that all British people in the plains yearned for in those days. His career culminated as a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1866 until his death in 1872.
context_section_description: Captain Peacocke's parents, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Peacocke Sr. of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (3rd Foot) and Louisa Tottenham Peacocke, were married at Bath, Somerset, in the west of England, on 11 June 1808. There is a fine miniature portrait of Stephen Peacocke Sr., c. 1800, by George Chinnery. There is a love note from Louisa to Stephen in the back of the miniature:
   
  "My beloved, my adored, Stephen, my idolised and matchless husband, married 11 June 1808. Louisa Peacocke"
  Their eldest child, Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke Jr., the artist, was born in 1813. He was known by his middle name.
  Their second son, Eliott Tottenham Peacocke, was at Tonbridge School 1832–33, joined the 1st Bombay Native Infantry in 1837, was promoted to Captain in the 1st Grenadiers Regiment in India in 1847 as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of the Army, and died in Bombay aged 38 on 13 July 1854. There was/is supposedly a monument there erected to his memory by his fellow officers.
  In 1837, Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke Jr. and Isabella Anne Louisa Brydges born 1815, the daughter of a baronet, were married, probably while he was on leave in England.
  Stephen and Isabella Peacocke had four sons and two daughters and at least ten grandchildren. Three of the sons and one daughter were residents of Auckland, and the fourth son settled in New South Wales. They are:
  1. Georgina Elizabeth Emma Peacocke, of Devonport, New Zealand, born c.1844, Poet, author of a book of verse, Rays from the Southern Cross, died 14 May 1892, at Devonport, NZ.
  2. John FitzRoy Beresford Peacocke, of Remuera, New Zealand, Born Switzerland, c. 1847, married about 1876 at Auckland at the age of 29 to Florence Pilling, lived in New Zealand sixty years, no known occupation, died 11 June 1917 aged seventy at Woolton Road, Remuera, NZ, buried in the Roman Catholic Cemetery at Howick. Male issue living - aged 36, 33, 28, 26. Female issue living - aged 40, 38, 34, 30.
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  2. Cyril Loftus DeQuincey Peacocke killed in action WW I.
  3. Noel Peacocke.
  4. Muriel Charlotte Anne Peacocke, born 1881.
  5. Egerton Francis Joseph Peacocke, born 1880, died 1960.
  6. Blanch Louisa Peacocke.
  7. Frederica Isabel Peacocke, born 1878.
  8. Paul Peacocke died in infancy.
  9. Florence Blanche Mary Peacocke, born 1876.
  10. ? Madge
  3. Gerald Loftus Torin Peacocke, a Madeira-born English barrister, later editor of the New Zealand Farmer.
  1. Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke, born 31 January 1881, a teacher, novelist, broadcaster and poet, married George Edward Cluett on 30 June 1920 in the Holy Trinity Parish Church of Devonport, died childless 1973.
  4. Reginald Thomas Stephen Peacocke b 1854, went to Australia and married Elizabeth Crook.
  5. Ponsonby John Raleigh Peacocke.
  6. Ines Eva Isabel Peacocke, married Thomas Lindesay, of Howick, New Zealand.
caption: Col. Stephen Peacocke Sr. by George Chinnery, c.1800
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