Sir Peter Quennell

Sir Peter Quennell (born March 9, 1905, Bickley, Kent [now in Greater London], England—died October 27, 1993, London) was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, and critic. He was a wide-ranging man of letters who was an authority on Lord Byron. Quennell was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After practicing journalism in London, he taught at the Tokyo University of Science and Literature in Japan in 1930 but resigned after a year and returned...