Thomas Love Peacock | |
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| Born | 18 October 1785 Weymouth, Dorset, England |
| Died | 23 January 1866 (aged 80) Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Surrey, England |
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Jane Gryffydh
(m. 1820; died 1865) |
| Children | 4, including Edward Gryffydh Peacock |
Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.