Men-at-the-Bar/Peacock, Rt. Hon. Sir Barnes

by Joseph Foster

Peacock, Rt. Hon. Sir Barnes, Knt., P.C. 1870, member of judicial committee of the privy council since 1872, legal member of supreme council of India 1852, chief justice Calcutta 1858-69, vice-president of the Legislative Council of India 1859, chief justice of supreme court of Bengal 1862-70, a student of the Inner Temple 29 Jan., 1828, called to the bar 29 Jan., 1836, Q.C., ⁠ 1850, bencher 10 May, 1850 (3rd son of Lewis H. Peacock, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, gent., dec.); born ⁠, 1810; married 1st, ⁠, 1835, Elizabeth, dau. of W. Fanning, Esq.; she died 28 March, 1865; he married 2ndly, 27 Jan., 1870, Georgina, dau. of Major-Genl. Showers, C.B., and has issue (see Foster's Baronetage).

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