M. R. Peacocke
Born
Margaret R. Bennett

1930
Reading, Berkshire
NationalityEnglish
OccupationEnglish poet

Margaret Ruth Peacocke (born 1930), also known as Meg Peacocke, is an English poet.[1]

Life

Peacocke was born Margaret Ruth Bennett in Reading, Berkshire to Joan Esther, née Spink (1901–1983) and (Harry) Rodney Bennett (1890–1948), a children's author and lyricist. She had an elder sister Anne (b.1926) and younger brother, the composer Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), with whom she collaborated on a number of vocal and choral works, starting in the 1980s.[2][3] She grew up in South Devon and she studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

In 1958, she married Gerald S. P. Peacocke, although they have since divorced.[4] She has four children: Tamsin Peacocke, who has four children; Tully Peacocke; Barnaby Peacocke, who has two children; and Harriet Peacocke, who also has two children.

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Works

References

  1. ^ Sleeman, Elizabeth, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
  2. ^ "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76". New York Times. 30 December 2012.
  3. ^ Venn, Edward (7 January 2016). "Bennett, Sir Richard Rodney (1936–2012), composer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105846. Retrieved 6 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "M. R. Peacocke, Poet". Retrieved 15 January 2015.


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