Robert Peters (born Robert Michael Parkins; 1918–2005)
was a British
de-frocked minister, a
plagiarist, a
conman
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, and a
bigamist
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who married at least eight women. He was dubbed "the Romeo Rev" by the popular press. In 2019 he was the subject of a biography by
Adam Sisman titled ''The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking'' (Profile Books).
References
1918 births
2005 deaths
People from Carlisle, Cumbria
English fraudsters
British fraudsters
Clergy from Cumbria
Impostors
Bigamists
20th-century English businesspeople
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