JOHN

See also:

• JOHN PEILE (1838-1910)

PEILE (1838-1910)  , English philologist, was born at Whitehaven on the 24th of April 1838 . He was educated at Repton and Christ's College, Cambridge . After a distinguished career (Craven scholar, senior classic and chancellor's medallist), he became fellow and tutor of his college, reader of comparative philology in the university (1884-1891), and in 1887 was elected master of Christ's . He took a great interest in the higher education of women and became president of Newnham College . He was the first to introduce the great philological works of George Curtius and Wilhelm Corssen to the English student in his Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (1869) . He died at Cambridge on the 9th of October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive history of Christ's College .