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was elected a member of this Society in January of the 

 same year), in order to estabhsh the well-known works at 

 Gorton, with which Mr. Peacock continued to be associated 

 until his death, officiating as manager and chairman of the 

 Board of Directors after the conversion of the firm into a 

 limited liability company in 1883. In these works from 2,000 

 to 3,000 people are employed, and about 200 engines are 

 annually constructed. Mr. Peacock was elected a member 

 of the Society in its centenary year, 1881. He took an 

 active interest in the educational, economic, and political 

 life of the district in which his business was established and 

 in which he lived, promoting the formation of savings 

 banks, the erection of new schools, and presenting to it a 

 church of considerable beauty, built from designs by another 

 member of the Society, Mr. Thomas Worthington,F.R.I.B.A. 

 The Brookfield church, Gorton, was built in 1870, to take 

 the place of the ancient non-conformist chapel, which 

 stood in the old burial ground on the low land below the 

 church, through which the Gore Brook flows. The site 

 was previously a most uninviting and desolate mass of clay 

 pits, and was raised considerably, with the adjoining high 

 road, so as to form a suitable position for the new church ; 

 in the erection of which Mr. Peacock took the liveliest 

 interest. The church is a structure of considerable size, 

 and with its lofty detached tower and spire forms a 

 land-mark in the district. It is in the early Geometric 

 style of the 13th century, and the tower contains a peal of 

 eight musical bells. Over the chancel arch a choir of 

 angels singing the Te Deum form a striking feature on 

 entering the building, and the general scheme of decoration, 

 with the polished granite columns and stained glass windows, 

 gives much richness of effect to the interior. In 1885 Mr. 

 Peacock was returned as the first representative in Parlia- 

 ment of the Gorton division, and was re-elected in 1886. 

 He died at his residence, Gorton Hall, on the evening of 

 March 3, 1889. 



