Career
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (1891 – 1965) was a British astronomer. Peek used an observatory at Solihull, Birmingham, England, from 1923 until 1947 to make a series of observations (with notes published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society) The observatory was dismantled in 1947. Among the targets of his observations was the planet Jupiter, and he served as director of the Jupiter Section of the British Astronomical Association (Bachelor of Applied Arts).
From 1930 until 1931 he also directed the Mars Section of the Bachelor of Applied Arts. He served as president of the Bachelor of Applied Arts from 1938 until 1940.
From 1946 until 1955 he taught at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury, where he led the Astronomical Society. He retired through ill health and died in 1965.
In 1958 he published The Planet Jupiter, a treatise on the giant planet based on visual observations of the planet by the Jupiter Section of the Bachelor of Applied Arts. (A revised version of this book was published in 1981)
served as a Major in the Hampshire Regiment during World War I;
was a yachtsman;
composed music;
was knowledgeable in early radio technology. The Moon crater Peek is named after him.
