Peter David Partner (15 July 1924 – 17 January 2015) was a British historian, particularly of medieval Rome and the Middle East.
After the war, he attended Magdalen College, Oxford to read law, but switched to history.
Partner worked as a journalist for many years with The Observer,[1] writing the lead article the first week of the Suez Crisis.
In 1955, Partner accepted a position to teach history at Winchester College,[1] where he remained for thirty years.
Partner was a historian of medieval and Renaissance Rome, as well as the Middle East, and was known for his studies of papal administration and diplomacy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.