John Peile (April 24, 1838 – October 9, 1910) was an English philologist. He was born at Whitehaven.
He was educated at Repton, St. Bees School and Christ's College, Cambridge where he was admitted pensioner 1856. 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). 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.
In 1866 he vacated his fellowship to be married to Annette Kitchener. Re-elected in 1867. He was Vice Chancellor of the University 1891-93. Newnham College has a Hall named after him and his wife. [Wikipedia and PBR]
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John Peile (April 24, 1838 – October 9, 1910) was an English philologist. He was born at Whitehaven. This is a signed photograph of portrait cc00007. See also cc00269 and cc00493.
