Edward Peel (big game fisherman)

Sir Edward Teddie Townley Peel, KBE, DSO, MC was a British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman. He fought throughout World War I in three overseas theatres of war, rising in rank from private to colonel. In 1932 he held the world record for the heaviest Atlantic bluefin tuna caught with rod and line. He was knighted in 1944. Peel was also chairman of Victoria College in Alexandria.

Peel, a son of William Felton Peel and Sarah Edith Peel, ne Willoughby, daughter of General Michael Francklin Willoughby, was born at Knutsford, Cheshire, onMay 1884. He had thirteen brothers and sisters and was a member of the wealthy, aristocratic Peel family. He attended Arnold House School in Llanddulas, Cheltenham College and the Lyce Franais in Tours. From 1902 he lived mostly in Egypt, in Alexandria. He was a keen cricketer both at college and in Egypt.

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