Peter Clemoes
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Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (20 January 1920 – 16 March 1996) was a British historian.
Biography
Peter Clemoes was 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.[1]
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.[1]
Clemoes would take an early retirement from the university in 1982. He died in 1996, at the age of 76, at his home in Chesterton.[2]
Anglo-Saxon England
Clemoes was the editor of the journal Anglo-Saxon England, an annual survey of the literature on the subject, which also included a number of substantial papers.
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- 1920 births
- 1996 deaths
- Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Reading
- Elrington and Bosworth Professors of Anglo-Saxon
- People from Southend-on-Sea
- 20th-century British historians
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Royal Corps of Signals soldiers
- Military personnel from Southend-on-Sea