Robert Peters (born Robert Michael Parkins; 1918–2005, Kettering General Hospital) was a British de-frocked minister, a

plagiarist Plagiarism is the fraudulent representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.From the 1995 '' Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary'': use or close imitation of the language and thought ...

, a conman, and a bigamist who married at least eight women. He was dubbed "the Romeo Rev" by the popular press. In 2019 he was the subject of a biography by

Adam Sisman Adam Sisman (born 17 March 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, ''Boswell's Presumptuous Task''. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honor ...

titled ''The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking'' (Profile Books).

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