Ponsonby Peacocke
Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke | |
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Captain Stephen Ponsonby Peacocke Jr. c. 1857 | |
| Born | 1813 England |
| Died | 30 May 1872 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Army officer, artist, politician |
| Partner | Isabella Anne Louisa Brydges |
| Children | Georgina 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. His career culminated as a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1866 until his death in 1872.