Peter trained at the National Hospital and later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he held a Nuffield Foundation fellowship. On appointment in 1956 he was one of two neurologists in the then Wessex region who, with others, went on to form the regional neuroscience centre in Southampton in 1965. His prodigious workload meant that he was known throughout the region. In spite of this he found time to sit on various committees, not least the Association of British Neurologists, which elected him as their president in 1983.
Outside medicine Peter was an accomplished painter and ornithologist. He had longstanding links with his local church and in retirement was a guide at Winchester Cathedral.
Predeceased by his wife, Barbara, he leaves three daughters and nine grandchildren.
Former consultant neurologist Wessex Regional Hospital Board, Hampshire (b 1920; q Cambridge/St Bartholomew's Hospital 1945; MA, MD, FRCP), died from chronic heart failure on 25 May 2007.