19 Facts About George Peacock

George Peacock FRS was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric.

George Peacock founded what has been called the British algebra of logic.

George Peacock's father, Thomas Peacock, was a priest of the Church of England, incumbent and for 50 years curate of the parish of Denton, where he kept a school.

In early life, George Peacock did not show any precocity of genius.

George Peacock was more remarkable for daring feats of climbing than for any special attachment to study.

In 1812 George Peacock took the rank of Second Wrangler, and the second Smith's prize, the senior wrangler being John Herschel.

The year after taking a Fellowship, George Peacock was appointed a tutor and lecturer of his college, which position he continued to hold for many years.

George Peacock followed up the translation with a volume containing a copious Collection of Examples of the Application of the Differential and Integral Calculus, which was published in 1820.

George Peacock was appointed an examiner in 1817, and he did not fail to make use of the position as a powerful lever to advance the cause of reform.

George Peacock was one of the most zealous promoters of an astronomical observatory at Cambridge, and one of the founders of the Philosophical Society of Cambridge.

George Peacock first asked William Rowan Hamilton, who declined; he then asked Peacock, who accepted.

George Peacock had his report ready for the third meeting of the Association, which was held in Cambridge in 1833; although limited to Algebra, Trigonometry, and the Arithmetic of Sines, it is one of the best of the long series of valuable reports which have been prepared for and printed by the Association.

In 1837 George Peacock was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, the chair afterwards occupied by Adams, the co-discoverer of Neptune, and later occupied by Robert Ball, celebrated for his Theory of Screws.

George Peacock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1818.

In 1842, George Peacock was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society.

George Peacock was ordained as a deacon in 1819, a priest in 1822 and appointed vicar of Wymeswold in Leicestershire in 1826.

George Peacock founded what has been called the British algebra of logic; to which Gregory, De Morgan and Boole belonged.

George Peacock married Frances Elizabeth, the daughter of William Selwyn.

George Peacock died in Ely on 8 November 1858, in the 68th year of his age, and was buried in Ely cemetery.