George Arthur Peck was educated at C. H. Spurgeon's Orphanage, London. At the age of fourteen he entered a solicitor's office as office boy and at seventeen he went to sea as an assistant steward. He made journeys to Singapore, Batavia, Malta, Spain and France. In 1882 Peck worked his passage to Sydney and gained employment in various solicitors' offices. He then moved to Rockhampton in 1898 and took up a position with a converyancer. It was during his time in Rockhampton that Peck began writing for the Bulletin.
