Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock
Born	(1785-10-18)18 October 1785 Weymouth, Dorset, England
Died	23 January 1866(1866-01-23) (aged 80) Lower Halliford, Shepperton, Surrey, England
Notable works	Nightmare Abbey (1818) Crotchet Castle (1831)
Spouse	Jane Gryffydh ​ ​ (m. 1820; died 1865)​
Children	4, including Edward Gryffydh Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day.