Caleb_Peacock
Caleb Peacock (13 April 1841 – 17 February 1896) was educated at Adelaide Educational Institution, one of J. L. Young's two first students.
He was for some time manager of Peacock and Son.[1]
He was associated with Beeby and Dunstan, millers and was an agent in Blanchetown.
- He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1871.[2]
- He was a trustee of the Savings Bank of South Australia.[3]
- and a director of the National Bank of Australasia, from 1873 to 1893 (when the bank was liquidated),[4] much of this time as chairman.
- He was a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce (including stints as chairman and vice-chairman).
- He was Mayor of Adelaide 1875–1877.
- He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly seat of North Adelaide in 1878 in a by-election forced by the resignation of Neville Blyth,[5] and retired with the dissolution of 1881.[6][7]
He died at his home "Keston" on Barton Terrace, North Adelaide, from heat apoplexy (heat stroke), on 17 February 1896.[8]