Description How a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest took in some of the brightest minds of his generation One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary fellow of the University of St Andrews..
Among his other works are two volumes of letters by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Plus I learned how to defrock a priest, always good to have on hand in these troubling times." --Simon Winchester, author of The Perfectionists About the Author ADAM Sisman is the author of Boswell\'s Presumptuous Task , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the biographer of John Le Carré, A. "I was captivated from start to finish by this utterly mad, and wholly delightful Story of chicanery and fantasy, and which involves a man who relentlessly duped our most cherished institutions of godly pursuit and higher learning.
Based on Trevor-Roper\'s own detailed "file on Peters," The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism, and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction.
Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI, and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind .
Motivated not by money but by a Desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole, and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore, and South Africa.
The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain\'s most eccentric criminals.
It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest, and imposter extraordinaire.
Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting.
It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford.
Description How a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest took in some of the brightest minds of his generation One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter
