Peter Elliott

Peter Elliott has had a lifelong interest in both history and art. Peter spent 35 years working as a lawyer but now devotes his time to researching and writing books with an art history tilt. His latest book is Thomas Muir: 'Lad O' Pairts': The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844-1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist. The book is recommended by Kathy Munro, on The Heritage Portal, as an 'even-handed biography full of appeal [which] does not shy away from the points of controversy around Muir’s attitudes and how policies of a century ago are to be evaluated today.’ Peter Elliott is the author of four previous books: Constance: One Road to Take. This book covers the life and photography of Constance Stuart Larrabee (1914-2000) and is described as an ‘important achievement’ by African Studies Review, June 2020, being the 'only full-length treatment of Larrabee’s life and art'; Nita Spilhaus (1878–1967) and her artist friends in the Cape, described as “a comprehensive resource” by South African Art Times, October 2015; Eight Months in the Veneto, a story of the endurance and courage of British Liaison Officers with the partisans in the mountains of the Veneto, Italy. 1944-1945; and Spilhaus: five hundred years of history (1450-1950), the story of a German/South African family.