Thomas Love Peacock was a writer of satirical novels lampooning ideas about the Picturesque set in country house settings, and of verse. He was a friend of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
In 1820 Peacock married Jane Gruffydh "the White Snowdonian Antelope" of Shelley's 'Letter to Maria Gisborne' and took a post with the East India Company.