born Oct. 18, 1785, Weymouth, Dorset, Eng.
died Jan. 23, 1866, Lower Halliford, Middlesex
English novelist and poet.
For most of his life Peacock worked for the East India Co. He was a close friend of Nightmare Abbey (1818), satirizes romantic melancholy and includes characters based on Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and Lord {{link=Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron">Byron .