Frank Barry Peacock was born in Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England on 12 December 1859 and was articled to Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908) in Manchester. He then worked as an assistant to Jethro Anstice Cossins (1830-1917) from 1880 to 1887.
He commenced practice as architect in the Birmingham in 1889 [or 1887 - sources differ] and was in partnership with Jethro Anstice Cossins from 1889 [or 1887 - sources differ] as Cossins & Peacock. In c.1896 Hubert Rawson Bewlay (1872-1942) joined the practice which renamed Cossins, Peacock & Bewlay. When Bewlay became ill, his younger brother Ernest Chawner Bewlay (1872-1942) took over as partner in the practice in c.1900.
Cossins subsequently withdrew from the practice and by 1916 Peacock and Bewlay were in partnership with Samuel Nathaniel Cooke (1882-1964) as Peacock Bewlay & Cooke in Birmingham. Cooke at some time also dropped out of the partnership and Peacock and Bewlay continued the practice as Peacock & Bewlay. The partnership was eventually dissolved in December 1934.
Peacock was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1907. He Vice-President of Birmingham Architectural Association in 1890-01, and 1891-02.. He died in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire on 17 February 1937
Barbadoes Mutual Assurance Co.'s Offices, Bridgetown, Barbadoes; the Metropolitan Bank, Wolverhampton; the Metropolitan Bank, Hereford; City of Birmingham Women's Baths: City of Birmingham School for Jewellers; City of Birmingham Gas Department, Recreation Hall; City of Birmingham Gas Department Offices, King's Norton: Open-Air School, Remand Home; Rednal Tea Rooms, Birmingham; St. Philip's Hall, the Oratory, St. Catherine's Tower, and the Maternity Hospital, Birmingham; and many other important institutions, business premises, and residences In Birmingham and district. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914]
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St.. Augustine's Priory, Ealing; Church of the Sacred Heart and St. Catherine, Droitwich; St. Catherine's Tower, Birmingham; St. Philip's Hall, the Oratory, Birmingham; the Oratory School, Reading; Schools of the Holy Family, and the Uffculme Open Air School, at Birmingham; Cropwood Open Air School, Blackwell; Council Schools, Erdington; the Maternity Hospital, Birmingham: University of Birmingham, Chancellor's Hall; Friends Institutes at Hay Mills, and Greet: City of Birmingham: Jewellers' School, Women's Baths, Remand Home, Bilberry Hill Tea Rooms, Gas Offices (King's Norton); banking premises at Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Hereford, Cradley Heath, etc.; insurance company's offices, Bridgetown, Barbados; business premises for Messrs. W. Canning and Co., Ltd., Webley and Scott, Barrow's Stores, Ltd., Howes and Barley, Ltd.; and a large number of private houses. [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1923]
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See also: Baker, Ann; Butler, Joanne and Southworth, Pat. ‘Cossins Peacock and Bewlay’ [see Bibliography below] for a selected list of architectural works by Cossins Peacock & Bewlay (pp. 239-248).
Baker, Ann; Butler, Joanne and Southworth, Pat. ‘Cossins Peacock and Bewlay’ in Birmingham’s Victorian and Edwardian Architects, edited by Phillada Ballard. Wetherby: Oblong Creative Ltd. for the Birmingham and West Midlands Group of the Victorian Society, 2009 pp. 221-252
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
'Obituary'. The Builder vol. 152, 5 March 1937 p. 534
'Obituary'. Royal Institute of British Architects Journal vol. 44, 20 March 1937 p.518
Who's Who in Architecture 1914. London: Technical Journals Ltd., 1914
Who's Who in Architecture 1923. Edited by Frank Chatterton. London: Architectural Press, 1923