Andrew Michael Duncan Lycett (born 1948)[1][2] FRSL is an English biographer and journalist.
[5][6][7] Peter Lycett's mother was of the Burns-Lindow family of Ingwell and Ehen Hall, Cumbria.
[8][9] Lycett was educated at Charterhouse School and studied history at Christ Church, Oxford.
Lycett worked for a while for The Times as a correspondent in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
He has written more widely on the lives and work of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle.