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	'''Sir George Barnes Peacock''' (1805{{snd}}3 December 1890) was an English judge. He was the first Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]] in [[India]].		'''Sir George Barnes Peacock''' (1805{{snd}}3 December 1890) was an English judge. He was the first Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]] in [[India]] and the final Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]].

	Peacock was the son of Lewis Peacock, a [[solicitor]]. After practising as a [[special pleader]], he was [[Call to the bar\|called to the bar]] in 1836 by the [[Inner Temple]], and joined the Home Circuit.<ref name=":0">{{ODNBweb\|id=21670\|first=J. A.\|last=Hamilton\|title=Peacock, Sir Barnes (1810–1890)\|first2=Roger T.\|last2=Stearn\|authorlink=John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner}}</ref> In 1844 he obtained great reputation by pointing out the flaw which invalidated the conviction of [[Daniel O'Connell]] and his fellow defendants.{{sfn\|Chisholm\|1911\|p=20}} He [[Queen's Counsel\|took silk]] in 1850, and was elected a [[bencher]] of the Inner Temple the same year.<ref name=":0" />		Peacock was the son of Lewis Peacock, a [[solicitor]]. After practising as a [[special pleader]], he was [[Call to the bar\|called to the bar]] in 1836 by the [[Inner Temple]], and joined the Home Circuit.<ref name=":0">{{ODNBweb\|id=21670\|first=J. A.\|last=Hamilton\|title=Peacock, Sir Barnes (1810–1890)\|first2=Roger T.\|last2=Stearn\|authorlink=John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner}}</ref> In 1844 he obtained great reputation by pointing out the flaw which invalidated the conviction of [[Daniel O'Connell]] and his fellow defendants.{{sfn\|Chisholm\|1911\|p=20}} He [[Queen's Counsel\|took silk]] in 1850, and was elected a [[bencher]] of the Inner Temple the same year.<ref name=":0" />

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'''Sir George Barnes Peacock''' (1805{{snd}}3 December 1890) was an English judge. He was the first Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]] in [[India]].

Peacock was the son of Lewis Peacock, a [[solicitor]]. After practising as a [[special pleader]], he was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] in 1836 by the [[Inner Temple]], and joined the Home Circuit.<ref name=":0">{{ODNBweb|id=21670|first=J. A.|last=Hamilton|title=Peacock, Sir Barnes (1810–1890)|first2=Roger T.|last2=Stearn|authorlink=John Hamilton, 1st Viscount Sumner}}</ref> In 1844 he obtained great reputation by pointing out the flaw which invalidated the conviction of [[Daniel O'Connell]] and his fellow defendants.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=20}} He [[Queen's Counsel|took silk]] in 1850, and was elected a [[bencher]] of the Inner Temple the same year.<ref name=":0" />

In 1852, Peacock went to India as a legal member of the [[Governor-General|Governor General]]'s Council. The [[Council of India|Legislative Council]] was established soon after his arrival, and although no orator, he was so frequent a speaker that legislation enjoining councillors to deliver their speeches sitting was said to have been devised with the sole object of restraining him.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=20}} As a member of [[James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie|Lord Dalhousie's]] council he supported the annexation of [[Oudh]], and he stood by [[Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning|Lord Canning]] all through the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=20}}

In 1859 Peacock became the last Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William]], and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]].<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed as the first Chief Justice of the [[Calcutta High Court]] on 1 July 1862. He returned to England in 1870 and in 1872 was appointed as a paid member of the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]], the [[court of last resort]] for the British Empire.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=20}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Peacock, Sir Barnes |volume=21 |page=20}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171118233011/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/history.htm Brief History of the Calcutta High Court]

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