George Peacock - Private Life

Private Life

Politically he was a Whig.

His last public act was to attend a meeting of the university reform commission. He died in Ely on 8 November 1858 in the 68th year of his age and was buried in Ely cemetery. He had married Frances Elizabeth, the daughter of William Selwyn but had no children.

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