Parents: Gordon Frank Peters (1894–1962) and Constance Philomena CAFFREY (1895–1962).
Author of the book "A Family from Flanders". Publisher: William Collins Sons and Co Ltd (1985).
The De Le Pierre's were Protestant Walloon refugees from La Gorgue in former Flanders (now north-east corner of France near Lille) who settled in Kent. They anglicised their surname to Peters.
“John Peters had an old-fashioned education at Downside and Balliol, where he read Greats; he was President of the Oxford Union in 1953. After national service in the Army he has spent most of his professional life as an ‘Admiralty civilian’ helping to look after the Royal Navy in a wide variety of jobs, from secretary to the last First Lord of the Admiralty to chief salesman of RN ships and equipment to other Navies. He has also worked in the Air Staff and the Cabinet secretariat; he has travelled in many parts of the world and served as defence counsellor in the UK delegation to NATO in Brussels, where he carried out much of the research for A Family from Flanders. He is married with three grown-up children. He lives in Kent where his ancestors arrived from the Continent in a hurry 350 years ago and his family has lived ever since." [1]
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