Richard Peacock

Richard Peacock (April 9, 1820 - March 3, 1889) was an English engineer, one of the founders of locomotive manufacturer Beyer-Peacock.

• 1820 Born in Swaledale, he was educated at Leeds Grammar School

• c.1834 At 14 he left school, to be apprenticed at Fenton, Murray and Jackson in Leeds.

• c.1838 At 18 he was a precocious locomotive superintendent on the Leeds and Selby Railway. When the line was acquired by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840 he worked under Daniel Gooch at Swindon but reputedly fled to escape Gooch's wrath.

• 1841, he became the locomotive superintendent of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, subsequently the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.

• 1853, he joined Charles Beyer to found the celebrated locomotive company Beyer-Peacock. He had met Beyer through the acquisition of locomotives from Sharp Brothers, and from both being among the founders of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847.

• 1885 From the 1885 general election until his death in 1889, Peacock was MP for Manchester Gorton.

• 1889 He died in Manchester. Obituary in The Engineer

See Also

• 1847 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: New Members
• 1849 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1850 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1851 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1853 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1866 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1867 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1868 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1872 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1875 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1875 Manchester Exhibition
• 1880 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1881 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1882 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1883 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1884 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1885 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1885 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Members
• 1886 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1887 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1888 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Council
• 1889 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries
• 1889 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries
• 1889 Iron and Steel Institute: Obituaries
• 1890 Iron and Steel Institute: Obituaries
• Beyer, Peacock and Co
• Charles Beyer
• Charles Beyer: Obituary
• Engineering 1889 Jan-Jun: Index: Obituaries
• Fenton, Murray and Jackson
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Isaac Watt Boulton
• Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
• Ralph Peacock
• Richard Roberts: 1817 Lathe
• Robert Reynolds
• The Engineer 1866/08/03
• The Engineer 1875/05/14
• The Engineer 1875/08/20
• The Engineer 1889/03/08
• The Engineer 1894/07/27
• The Engineer 1895/09/06
• William Buckle

Sources of Information

• The Engineer of 8th March 1889 p207