ABSTRACT
Peacock was fifty-seven when the Euphrates flotilla was broken up, leaving only the Nitocris in Iraq to be employed by the East India Company for survey and other work. He had been appointed Examiner at the India House in 1836 and held that post until his retirement in 1856, one year before the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny that led to the transfer of authority from the Company to the British government in 1858.
