Peter Clemoes

Peter Alan Martin Clemoes (20 January 1920 – 16 March 1996) was a British historian.

Peter Alan Martin Clemoes
Born	(1920-01-20)20 January 1920
Died	16 March 1996(1996-03-16) (aged 76)
Occupation	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.

Works

• Clemoes, Peter, ed. (1955). Aelfric's Catholic Homilies (The First Series ed.).^[3]
• Clemoes, Peter (1995). Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-30711-6.^[2]