eldest son, Colonel Ralph Peacock VD (1838–1928) of the part-time Manchester Artillery Volunteers, succeeded him at Gorton Foundry. Of his daughters the eldest, Jane Peacock (1855–1928), married William Taylor Birchenough JP, a silk manufacturer who was elder brother of Sir Henry Birchenough and son of John Birchenough. Peacock's grandson, Richard Peacock Birchenough, married Dorothy Grace Godsal, daughter of Philip Thomas Godsal, the inventor of the Godsal anti tank rifle. Peacock's youngest daughter, Eugenie, married George P. Dawson, who succeeded Colonel Peacock as managing director on the formation of the incorporated Beyer, Peacock and Company Limited in 1902. Colonel Ralph Peacock died without issue, as did Richard Peacock's only other surviving son, Frederick William Peacock (1858–1924). Richard Peacock died in Manchester at the age of 68. He is buried in the Peacock Mausoleum in the graveyard of his Brookfield Unitarian Church. The graveyard also holds the remains of Ralph Peacock and an earlier deceased son, Joseph Peacock. References Lloyd, Backtrack, 2004, 18 710 Beyer Peacock Locomotives to the World RL Hills and D Patrick page 10 Beyer Peacock Quarterly Review July 1927 Who's Who of British Parliament Volume 2 1886-1918 Bibliography Ahrons, L.E. (1927) The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825–1925 Obituary - The Engineer, 8 March 1889. 1820 births 1889 deaths People from Richmondshire (district) Engineers from Yorkshire History of Greater Manchester Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People educated at Leeds Grammar School UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 History of Manchester English Unitarians Great Central Railway people 19th-century English businesspeople