Ponsonby Peacocke

Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke
Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke Jr. c.1857
Born1813
England
Died30 May 1872
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Army officer, artist, politician
PartnerIsabella Anne Louisa Brydges
ChildrenGeorgina Elizabeth Emma Peacocke
John FitzRoy Beresford Peacocke
Gerald Loftus Torin Peacocke
Reginald Thomas Stephen Peacocke
Ponsonby John Raleigh Peacocke
Ines Eva Isabel Peacocke
Parent(s)Stephen Peacocke Sr. and Louisa Tottenham 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 British people in the plains yearned for in those days.[1][2] His career culminated as a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1866 until his death in 1872.[3]

  1. ^ Swami, V. Narayan (27 January 2009). "Ooty Preserved : The Sunlit Hillscapes of Capt Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke". Rabbiting On. V. Narayan Swami. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
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