Peter Bander van Duren

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Peter Bander van Duren (Cologne, 30 July 1930 - 21 April 2004) was a British expert on heraldry and orders of knighthood.

Dr. Peter Bander became a British citizen in 1962 and changed his name in 1976 by deed poll to Peter Bander van Duren adding the name of his mother (von Duren) in an altered form to his father's name. Dr. Peter Bander van Duren worked as a teacher in a borstal and in a school in deprived part of Islington. Later he became a publisher.

The Catholic Peter Bander van Duren was the author of several books on heraldry, some of them in coöparation with Bruno Bernard Heim or Archbishop Hygenius Eugene Cardinale the Apostolic Delegate in the United Kingdom.