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

Biography

Peter Clemoes was born in

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and educated at Brentwood School. He originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to

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but the

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intervened and he served with the

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. After the war he took a degree in English from

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, London, which was followed by postgraduate work on Anglo-Saxon at

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, gaining a PhD in 1956. He then held a research fellowship at the

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until 1961 when he returned to Cambridge under

Dorothy Whitelock Dorothy Whitelock, (11 November 1901 – 14 August 1982) was an English historian. From 1957 to 1969, she was the Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. Her best-known work is ''English Historica ...

, whom he replaced as

Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. The first chair was elected in 1878, when a gift endowed in 1867 by Joseph Bosworth, Rawlinsonian Professor of Angl ...

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.

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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 {{UK-historian-stub