Peter Beal

Peter George Beal, FBA, FSA is a manuscript expert and indexer. Educated at the University of Leeds, Beal worked in publishing as an editor before entering the auction house Sotheby's in 1980, where he was director of the department of printed books and manuscripts from 1996 to 2005. Since 2002, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies in the University of London.