Ernest Cromwell Peake

Ernest Cromwell Peake (1874 - 1950) was a medical missionary in China at the turn of the twentieth century and the father of the great British novelist and artist Mervyn Peake. Hilary Spurling is a biographer and critic whose work includes an award-winning two-volume biography of Henri Matisse.

Ernest Cromwell Peake (1874 - 1950) was a medical missionary in China at the turn of the twentieth century and the father of the great British novelist and artist Mervyn Peake. Hilary Spurling is a biographer and critic whose work includes an award-winning two-volume biography of Henri Matisse. See less