Peter Clemoes

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

Born in Southend-on-Sea and educated at Brentwood School, he originally wished to become an actor and won a scholarship to RADA but the Second World War intervened and he served with the Royal Corps of Signals. After the war he took a degree in English from Queen Mary College, London which was followed by postgrad work on Anglo-Saxon at King's College, Cambridge, gaining a PhD in 1956. He then research fellowship at the University of Reading until 1961 when he returned to Cambridge under Dorothy Whitelock, whom he replaced as Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1969.