PETER, a distinguished philologist and editor, was born in 1773, and educated at Westminster and Oxford. After quitting the university he was appointed to a small chapelry at Horkesley in Essex; but on the death of his uncle, from whom he inherited a competent fortune, he devoted himself to the study of Greek philology. He resided for some time at Edinburgh, where he lived in intimacy with the projectors of the Edinburgh Review. To this periodical he contributed the articles on Heyne's Homer, Schweighausen's Athenaeus, Bloemfield's Prometheus, and Porson's Heuba. To the Quarterly Review he also contributed several classical articles. In 1819 he was commissioned along with Sir Humphry Davy to superintend the deciphering of the papyri at Herculaneum; and on his return after a short illness he was appointed principal of St Alban's Hall and Camden Professor of History at Oxford. He died of disease of the heart, March 8, 1825.