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'''Peter Giles'''
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=== House Notes ===
1921.11.15 proposed by W.H.R. Rivers, seconded by H.J.E. Peake <br />death noted in Report of the Council 1935-1936
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Dr Peter Giles (20 October 1860 – 17 September 1935) was a Scottish philologist and Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.<br />Peter Giles was born at Strichen, Aberdeenshire, on 20 October 1860 and, after graduating from the University of Aberdeen, went up to Cambridge University as a scholar of Gonville and Caius College in 1882.[1] He was placed in the first class in both parts of the Classical Tripos and in the second class in history.<br />After attending the lectures of Karl Brugmann at Freiburg and Leipzig, Giles brought the ideas of the Neo-grammarians to England in his only publication, A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students, published in 1895 and subsequently translated into German.<br />Giles succeeded John Peile as the Reader in comparative philology at Cambridge in 1891, a position he retained until his death.<br />Peter Giles served as the Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1910 until 1935 and as Vice-Chancellor from 1919-1920. He died in Cambridge, aged 74.<br />
