Fenn, who was allowed £35 a year for his support and maintenance. James Fenn, a yeoman farmer, at Axter's End, in the parish of Northchurch, Hertfordshire. Titchbourn usually spent a few weeks every summer at the house of Mr. Titchbourn, one of the Queen's bedchamber women, with a handsome pension annexed to the charge.

St Mary's Church, Northchurch, HertfordshireĪfter he was discharged from the supervision of Dr Arbuthnot, he was entrusted to the care of Mrs. Peter is shown wearing a green coat and holding oak leaves and acorns in his right hand. The interior designer and painter William Kent included a depiction of Peter in a large painting of King George I's court that today hangs on the east wall of the King's Staircase at Kensington Palace in London. All efforts to teach him to speak, read or write failed. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, in his Origin and Progress of Language presents Peter as an illustration of his theory of the evolution of the human species.Ĭaroline, Princess of Wales took an interest in Peter's welfare, and in 1726, after the initial public curiosity began to subside, she arranged for Dr Arbuthnot to oversee his education. Daniel Defoe also wrote on the subject in his pamphlet Mere Nature Delineated.

The craze was the subject of a biting satire by Jonathan Swift, and of another entitled The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation, which has been attributed to Swift and John Arbuthnot. After Peter's transportation to Britain, curiosity and speculation concerning Peter was excited in London.

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