Gerald Beresford Ponsonby Peacocke (2 June 1931 – 23 May 2013) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
A solicitor by profession, and a former city councillor, Gerry Peacocke was elected the National Party member for Dubbo, in 1981.
[1] During his parliamentary career, Peacocke served as a minister in the Greiner and Fahey Coalition Governments.
Peacocke reacted adversely to his sacking and called Premier Fahey "a gutless little wimp .
wide and shallow like a soup bowl" [2] for not informing him beforehand of his sacking but this has been denied by Armstrong.