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John Peet (other)
John Peet may refer to: * John Peet (surgeon) (1818–1874), British surgeon * John Peet (1915–1988), British journalist * John Peet (born 1954), British journalist *J. H. John Peet, travelling secretary of the Biblical Creation Society {{hndis, Peet, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peet (surgeon)
John Peet (28 October 1818 – 18 January 1874) was a British surgeon who worked in India in the Bombay Medical Service and served as the first professor of anatomy and surgery at the Grant Medical College. He published one of the first textbooks on medicine for Indian students which was also translated into Indian languages. Peet studied medicine at the Colonial Hospital in Hobert Town, Tasmania, under James Scott (1790–1837) and E.S.P. Bedford and qualified as a doctor in 1841 and became a ship surgeon on the '' Bussorah Merchant''. He joined the service of the East India Company Bombay Medical Service on 2 May 1842. Peet served with the Indian Navy aboard the HMS ''Nemesis'' and was with Charles Napier's expedition to Sind. His early posting was in Sind and in 1845 he became a professor of anatomy at the Grant Medical College while working also at the Jamsetji Jijibhai Hospital. He was also deputed as an inspector of education in Bombay from 1856 to 1861. He qualified as surge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peet (1915–1988)
John Scott Peet (1915 - 29 June 1988 in East-Berlin) was a British journalist who defected to East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) in 1950. Biography Parental family John Peet was born on 27 November 1915, the third child of Hubert William Peet (1886 - 1951) and his wife, Edith Mary, born Scott. He had two older sisters and a younger brother, Stephen. John's parents were Quakers, unlike his four grandparents who were Congregationalist. His mother's parents had served as missionaries. John went to the Quaker boarding schools at Saffron Walden and then Bootham His father was a journalist, who wrote religious news and also edited the weekly Quaker magazine '' The Friend'' from 1932 to 1949. He was also an absolutist conscientious objector, who suffered three terms of imprisonment for his refusal to obey military orders. Grenadier Guard "For complex reasons", after Quaker School, John Peet joined the Grenadier Guards. According to his brother, Stephen, he was bought ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Peet (born 1954)
John Peet (born 8 May 1954) is a British journalist and author, who is at present the political editor of ''The Economist'' newspaper. He was previously Europe editor from 2003 to 2015, and is widely considered an expert on European affairs. Born in Mombasa as the elder son of Frank and June Peet, he grew up in Kenya where his father held a government position until 1963 when the family relocated to Oxfordshire. He was educated at The Pilgrims' School, Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded an academic scholarship. Whilst there, he took supervisions from the former Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King. Peet was an active member of the Disraelians, a political club in Cambridge supporting more conservative fiscal policy. He graduated in 1975 with an MA degree in Economics. Peet has written several Economist special reports on subjects including water, the future of Europe, Ireland, Turkey, and Britain's relationship with the EU. A report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
