Background
HOLT, Peter was born on November 28, 1918 in Leigh, Lancashire. Son of Reverend Peter Holt and Elizabeth Holt.
HOLT, Peter was born on November 28, 1918 in Leigh, Lancashire. Son of Reverend Peter Holt and Elizabeth Holt.
Holt attended Lord Williams"s Grammar School in Thame and studied History at University College, Oxford.
He then obtained a Diploma of Education and worked as a secondary school teacher and inspector in Sudan 1941-1953, and as Government Archivist and part-time lecturer at the University College of Khartoum 1952-1955. He taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) 1955-1982, as Lecturer, then Reader, then Professor of Arab History, and finally Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East 1975-1982.
Married Nancy Bury (nee Mawle) in 1953.