Peter Clemoes
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1920 – 1996
Who was Peter Clemoes?
Peter Alan Martin Clemoes was a British historian.
Born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Brentwood School, he originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to RADA but the Second World War intervened and he served with the Royal Corps of Signals. After the war he took a degree in English from Queen Mary College, London, which was followed by postgraduate work on Anglo-Saxon at King's College, Cambridge, gaining a PhD in 1956. He then held a research fellowship at the University of Reading until 1961 when he returned to Cambridge under Dorothy Whitelock, whom he replaced as Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in 1969.
His son Martin is the founder of Eye2eye Software Ltd, based in Cambridge, England.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1920
- Education
- Queen Mary University of London
- Died
- Mar 16, 1996
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on July 23, 2013
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