Edward Peel (big-game fisherman)

Sir Edward Townley Peel, KBE, DSO, MC (1884–1961) 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. He was a member of a mercantile family of Alexandria and spent much of his life in Egypt, serving as chairman of Victoria College there. In 1932 he held the world record for the heaviest Atlantic bluefin tuna caught with rod and line.

Sir Edward Townley Peel

KBE, DSO, MC
Born(1884-05-31)31 May 1884
Knutsford, Cheshire
Died6 September 1961(1961-09-06) (aged 77)
London
NationalityBritish
Alma materCheltenham College
Occupation(s)Military officer, businessman
Known forBig-game tunny fishing, yachtsman
Spouse
Françoise Nora de Revière
(m. 19231953)
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