George Peacock (1824–1900) was an Australian businessman, best known for his association with the production of tinned jams made with fruit grown in Tasmania.
[1] By the mid-1870s, Hobart was the jam-making centre of the Australian colonies.
Peacock's factory in Hobart manufactured jam from fruit shipped from the Huon Valley.
[2] In 1880 Peacock moved to Sydney, and continued his business again making jam from fruit sourced from Tasmania.
The Hobart-based jam-making business was taken over by his son Ernest, business associate A. W. Palfreyman, and Henry Jones.