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John Peile

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John Peile by George Reid

John Peile FBA (24 April 1838 – 9 October 1910) was an English philologist.[1]

Life

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He was born at Whitehaven, the son of geologist Williamson Peile, F.G.S., who died when his son was five years old.[2][3]

He was educated at Repton (under the headmastership of his uncle, Thomas Williamson Peile, father of Sir James Braithwaite Peile),[3] St. Bees School and Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] After a distinguished career (Craven Scholar, Senior Classic and First Chancellor's Medallist), he became Fellow and Tutor of his college, Reader of Comparative Philology in the university (1884-1891), and in 1887 was elected Master of Christ's. He took a great interest in the higher education of women and became president of Newnham College. He was the first to introduce the great philological works of Georg Curtius and Wilhelm Corssen to the English student in his Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (1869). He died at Cambridge in October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive history of Christ's College (publ. 1913).[4]

In 1866 he married Annette, daughter of William Cripps Kitchener, and had by her, besides two children who died in infancy, two sons and a daughter.[5]

Selected publications

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  • An Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (3rd & corrected ed.). Macmillan and Company. 1875.
  • Philology. Appleton. 1879.
  • Christ's College. F. E. Robinson & Company. 1900.

References

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  1. ^ "Peile, John". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1376.
  2. ^ a b "Peile, John (PL856J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ a b Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, vol. 3, ed. Sidney Lee, p. 95
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  5. ^ Giles 1912.

Sources

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Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
1887–1910
Succeeded by
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
1891–1892
Succeeded by