John Peile (April 24, 1838 – October 9, 1910) was an English philologist. He was born at Whitehaven, educated at Repton, St. Bees School and Christ's College, Cambridge where he was admitted pensioner 1856. He became Fellow and Tutor of his college. In 1866 he vacated his fellowship to be married to Annette Kitchener but was re-elected in 1867. He was Reader of Comparative Philology in the university (1884-1891), and in 1887 was elected 26th Master of Christ's. He was Vice Chancellor of the University1891-93. He took a great interest in the higher education of women and became President of Newnham College. Newnham College has a Hall named after him and his wife. He died at Cambridge in October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive history of Christ's College (publ. 1913). He also composed the remarkable two volume Biographical Register of Christ's College which he began in 1900 and lived to complete down to 1871, the work being taken over by Arthur Shipley who completed it to 1910 the year Peile died. [Wikipedia and PBR]
