John Peile

John Peile FBA (24 April 1838 – 9 October 1910) was an English philologist.

He was born at Whitehaven, the son of geologist Williamson Peile, F.G.S., who died when his son was five years old.

He was educated at Repton (under the headmastership of his uncle, Thomas Williamson Peile, father of Sir James Braithwaite Peile), St. Bees School and Christ's College, Cambridge. After a distinguished career (Craven Scholar, Senior Classic and First 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 Georg Curtius and Wilhelm Corssen to the English student in his Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (1869). He died at Cambridge in October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive history of Christ's College (publ. 1913).

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peile, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Giles, Peter (1912). "Peile, John" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Giles, Peter; Pickles, John D. "Peile, John (1838–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35458. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)