Peter Levi

Peter Chad Tigar Levi FSA FRSL (16 May 1931, in Ruislip – 1 February 2000, in Frampton-on-Severn) was an English poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic.

The family of his father (Herbert Simon Levi) came from Istanbul and that of his mother (Edith Mary Tigar) was English.

His mother was a devout Roman Catholic and his Jewish father converted to that religion;[1] their three children all entered religious orders.

He was educated in private Catholic establishments starting at Prior Park near Bath, run by the Christian Brothers.

In 1988, he claimed to have found a previously unknown poem by William Shakespeare in a manuscript at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.