Father Peter Milward, SJ (12 October 1925[1] – 16 August 2017[2]) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar.
Born in London in 1925, Milward was educated at Wimbledon College, entering the Society of Jesus in 1943 at the age of 18.
He went on to study Classics and English Literature in Heythrop College and Campion Hall, Oxford.
In Oxford he made a point of attending the lectures of C. S. Lewis and the meetings of the Socratic Club.
[citation needed] Outside Japan, he is best known to academics as a specialist in Renaissance literature who, largely on the basis of research in the Huntington Library, compiled two fundamental aids for the study of religion in early modern England: Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age (1977) and Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age (1978).