PEACOCK

Sir Barnes (3 son of Lewis Peacock of 38 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitor and me enger 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.