Peter Clemoes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.