He was educated at Cambridge County High School and studied law at Cambridge University and Dublin University.
Peter was Secretary and Legal Adviser to the Central Council Forage Department for Civil Supplies during the First World War and was Executive Officer, Controlling Department at the Board of Trade. Peters was originally elected as a Liberal, but later changed his allegiance to the National Liberal Party. He served as ary Private Secretary to the Secretary to the Mines Department, and ary Private Secretary to the Minister of Labour to 1940.
35th United Kingdom. 36th United Kingdom. 37th United Kingdom
He served as Member of (Member of Parliament) for Huntingdonshire from the 1929 general election until 1945, preceding David Renton.