| M. R. Peacocke | |
| Birth Name: | Margaret R. Bennett |
| Birth Date: | 1930 |
| Birth Place: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | English poet |
Margaret Ruth Peacocke (born 1930), also known as Meg Peacocke, is an English poet.[1]
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 (19362012), 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.