Peter Whelan (conductor)
Peter Whelan may refer to: * Peter Whelan (playwright) * Peter Whelan (priest) * Peter Whelan (lawyer) Peter Whelan (born 1979) is a professor of law at the School of Law, University of Leeds. A qualified New York Attorney-at-Law, Whelan conducts research in competition (antitrust) law and criminal law. He published the first full-length monogra ...

Peter Whelan (playwright)
Peter Whelan (3 October 1931 – 3 July 2014) was a British playwright. Whelan was born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, England. As a student from 1951–55 Whelan was an inspirational figure in the newly-formed Drama Society at the experimental University College of North Staffordshire, later Keele University. At Keele he met his wife Frangcon Price, who also excelled in drama as a student and in her later career. They married in 1958. His works includes seven plays for the Royal Shakespeare Company, most of which are period pieces based on real historical events. The first of these was ''Captain Swing'' in 1979. Another was ''The Herbal Bed'', about a court case involving William Shakespeare's daughter. It was first produced at the RSC's The Other Place (theatre), The Other Place theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 1996 and was revived at Duchess Theatre, The Duchess Theatre from April to October 1997. In 2008, his play ''The School of Night (play), The School of Night'', original ...
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Peter Whelan (priest)
Father Peter Whelan (1802 – February 6, 1871) was an Ireland, Irish-born Catholic priest who was a chaplain for both Confederate troops and Union prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Whelan previously served as a missionary in North Carolina and pastor of Georgia's first Catholic parish, and twice served as administrator of the entire Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, Diocese of Savannah. He initially ministered to Confederate troops including the Montgomery Guards, an Irish company established in Savannah for the First Georgia Volunteer Regiment. He remained with them during the Union siege of Fort Pulaski which guarded Savannah harbor, and volunteered to remain with them during their imprisonment in New York in 1862. About a year after his release in a prisoner exchange, he was assigned to minister to the Union prisoner of war, prisoners-of-war held at Andersonville, Georgia, where he became known as the "Angel of Andersonville." According to a biographer in 1959 ...
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