Name J. B. Role Journalist | Died 1983 Parents Gillie Potter | |
Education Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Books Country Talk, Along the Roman Roads of Britain | ||
John Hugh Brignal Peel (1913–1983) was a British journalist, author and poet, writing, as J. H. B. Peel, about farming and the countryside.
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His father was the comedian Gillie Potter. From the 1960s, he wrote a fortnightly essay, "Country Talk", for the Daily Telegraph. He wrote and narrated radio and television programmes. He was also awarded "Book of the Year" on two occasions by The Sunday Times.
Education
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and at Oriel College, Oxford.
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It was said of J H B Peel by John Masefield. 'Mr Peel knows more than any other living man about the life of the English Countryside'.
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