John Peile

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

Life

He was born at Whitehaven.

He was educated at Repton, 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).

References

  1. "Peile, John". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1376.
  2. "Peile, John (PL856J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Sources

Academic offices
Preceded by
Charles Anthony Swainson
Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
18871910
Succeeded by
Arthur Shipley
Preceded by
Henry Montagu Butler
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
18911892
Succeeded by
Augustus Austen Leigh
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