Lord Peter was born in 1890; he was the second son of Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey and Honoria Lucasta. His brothers, Gerald and Mary, also appear in the novels of Sayers.
Lord Peter studied at Eton, the most elite school in England, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in History. He served in the First World War, from which came out with the so-called war neurosis, something that creates problems to him on several novels, especially in the first ones. During the war, Lord Peter met the man who would be his best friend, Mervyn Bunter. Bunter was very skillful, and one of his ability was photography.
In Deadly Poison, Lord Peter meets Deborah Harriet Vane and falls in love with her. Harriet is a writer of mystery novels, licensed by Oxford, accused of murdering her old lover. Of course, Wimsey get Harriet escaping the gallows, and after proposing marriage to her (in Deadly Poison and Have His Carcase) Vane just accepting in Gaudy Night.
They married on 8th October 1935, at the Church of St Cross, Oxford, an event reflected in the collection of letters and journal entries of Busman's Honeymoon. The married couple Wimsey goes on a honeymoon to Talboys, a house in the east of Hertfordshire, which Lord Peter offers to his wife as a wedding gift. There, they found the corpse of the previous owner and, obviously, they spend the honeymoon solving the case. The Wimsey come to have three children: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (born in 1936), Roger Wimsey (born in 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born in 1940).
In addition to criminology, one of the hobbies of Lord Peter was to collect books. He also knew about food (and especially in oenology) and male fashion, as well as in classical music. He played quite well musical works of Bach on a piano. He pampered it even more than their books, their wines and their cars. He had christened one of his vehicles under the name "Madam Merdle" by the character of Little Dorrit, of Dickens.
Lord Peter was also author of two curious books: Notes on collecting and incunabula and The user manual of the murderer.
His clubs were the Marlborough and Egotists. He lived in the 110 Piccadilly, until he married Harriet Vane and moved to the neighbourhood of Mayfair. The family home is in Bredon Hall, duchy of Denver, Norfolk.
Lord Peter studied at Eton, the most elite school in England, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in History. He served in the First World War, from which came out with the so-called war neurosis, something that creates problems to him on several novels, especially in the first ones. During the war, Lord Peter met the man who would be his best friend, Mervyn Bunter. Bunter was very skillful, and one of his ability was photography.
In Deadly Poison, Lord Peter meets Deborah Harriet Vane and falls in love with her. Harriet is a writer of mystery novels, licensed by Oxford, accused of murdering her old lover. Of course, Wimsey get Harriet escaping the gallows, and after proposing marriage to her (in Deadly Poison and Have His Carcase) Vane just accepting in Gaudy Night.
They married on 8th October 1935, at the Church of St Cross, Oxford, an event reflected in the collection of letters and journal entries of Busman's Honeymoon. The married couple Wimsey goes on a honeymoon to Talboys, a house in the east of Hertfordshire, which Lord Peter offers to his wife as a wedding gift. There, they found the corpse of the previous owner and, obviously, they spend the honeymoon solving the case. The Wimsey come to have three children: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (born in 1936), Roger Wimsey (born in 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born in 1940).
In addition to criminology, one of the hobbies of Lord Peter was to collect books. He also knew about food (and especially in oenology) and male fashion, as well as in classical music. He played quite well musical works of Bach on a piano. He pampered it even more than their books, their wines and their cars. He had christened one of his vehicles under the name "Madam Merdle" by the character of Little Dorrit, of Dickens.
Lord Peter was also author of two curious books: Notes on collecting and incunabula and The user manual of the murderer.
His clubs were the Marlborough and Egotists. He lived in the 110 Piccadilly, until he married Harriet Vane and moved to the neighbourhood of Mayfair. The family home is in Bredon Hall, duchy of Denver, Norfolk.
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