John Peile

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John Peile
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Peile in later life, wearing a scarlet robe and glasses.
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Born (1838-04-24)24 April 1838
Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
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Cambridge, England
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Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline Philology
Institutions Christ's College, Cambridge
Influenced Alfred Chilton Pearson

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

Life

John Peile 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 School (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 Anglophone students in his Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (1869). Among Peile's students was Alfred Chilton Pearson, who learned Sanskrit from him following his matriculation at Christ's in 1879.[4] Peile died in Cambridge in October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive history of Christ's College, which was published in 1913.[5]

In 1866 he married Annette, daughter of William Cripps Kitchener. They had two children who died in infancy, two further sons, and a daughter.[6]

Selected publications

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References

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Sources

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

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  4. Robertson & Pottle 2004.
  5. Chisholm 1911.
  6. Giles 1912.