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Stephen Hubert Peet (16 February 1920 – 22 December 2005) was a British filmmaker, best known as a pioneer of illustrated oral history and his BBC television series ''Yesterday's Witness'' (1969–1981). ==Parental family and early life== Stephen Hubert Peet was born on 16 February 1920, in Penge, South London, the youngest child of Hubert William Peet and his wife, Edith Mary, born Scott. He had two older sisters and an older brother, John. Stephen's parents were Quakers, unlike his four grandparents who were Congregationalist. His mother's parents had served as missionaries.〔(Imperial War Museum interview with Stephen Peet on 30 October 1990. Catalogue No. 11736. Recorder: Lyn E Smith. Ten reels of audiotape (available online) with online text summary. )〕 Stephen's father, Hubert Peet (1886 - 1951), was a journalist, who wrote religious news and also edited the weekly Quaker magazine ''The Friend'' from 1932 to 1949. He was also an absolutist conscientious objector, who suffered three terms of imprisonment for his refusal to obey military orders.〔(Biography of H. W. Peet, John Peet's father, on London Borough of Lewisham's First Work War website )〕〔''The Times'', 29 August 1917,Pg 3, Issue 41569: "News in Brief" - H W Peet's third prison sentence.〕〔Obituary in ''The Times'' 6 January 1951, Pg 8, Issue 51892〕 Peet was educated at the Quaker Sidcot School, Somerset,〔(Sidcot School: Interesting old scholars: Stephen Peet 1933 - 1938. )〕 where he met first his future wife, Olive, as a fellow pupil 〔(Olive's father was Arthur Newbery, according to Commemorative programme of 2014 International Conscientious Objectors Day pg 21 )〕 (they married in July 1948 )〔(''Camden Review'' 21 July 2011: Olive Peet's recollections of the 1948 Olympics, which started a few days after her marriage. )〕). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Peet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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