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== Background and education == [[File:Thomas Love Peacock (ca 1805).jpg|left|thumb|The young T. L. Peacock]] Peacock was born in [[Weymouth, Dorset]], the son of Samuel Peacock and his wife Sarah Love, daughter of Thomas Love, a retired master of a [[man-of-war]] in the [[Royal Navy]].<ref name=DNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Peacock, Thomas Love}}</ref> His father was a glass merchant in London, partner of a Mr Pellatt, presumed to be [[Apsley Pellatt (1763β1826)]].<ref name=Garnett>Richard Garnett Introduction for the edition of Thomas Love Peacock's novels published by J. M. Dent & Co. in 1891</ref> Peacock went with his mother to live with her family at [[Chertsey]] in 1791 and in 1792 went to a school run by Joseph Harris Wicks at [[Englefield Green]] where he stayed for six and a half years. Peacock's father died in 1794 in "poor circumstances" leaving a small annuity.<ref name=letters>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_fKcspXDrnAC&pg=PR27 Thomas Love Peacock and Nicholas A. Joukovsky ''The Letters of Thomas Love Peacock: 1792β1827'']</ref> Peacock's first known poem was an epitaph for a school fellow written at the age of ten, and another on his ''Midsummer Holidays'' was written when he was thirteen. Around that time in 1798 he was abruptly taken from school and from then on was entirely self-educated.<ref name=letters/>
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