Ponsonby Peacocke
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Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke Jr. c.1857
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| Born | 1813 England |
| Died | 30 May 1872 New Zealand |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Army Officer, Artist, Politician |
| Partner(s) | Isabella Anne Louisa Brydges |
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| Parent(s) | Stephen Peacocke Sr. and Louisa Tottenham Peacocke |
Georgina Elizabeth Emma Peacocke
John FitzRoy Beresford Peacocke
Gerald Loftus Torin Peacocke
Reginald Thomas Stephen Peacocke
Ponsonby John Raleigh Peacocke
Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke (1813 – 29 May 1872), 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 Britishers in the plains yearned for in those days. Peacocke' s career culminated as a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1866 until his death in 1872.
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 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 brother officers.
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