James Peile

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James Hamilton Francis Peile (2 August 1863 – 4 April 1940Obituaries The Times (London, England), Saturday, 6 April 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48583 was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the twentieth century.

Peile was educated at Harrow and matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1882, graduating B.A. in 1886;{{alox2|title=Peile, James Hamilton Francis}}University Intelligence The Times (London, England), Saturday, 6 December 1890; pg. 9; Issue 33188 and was ordained in 1898.'CHURCH NEWS' The Hampshire Advertiser (Southampton, England), Wednesday, 23 June 1897; pg. [1]; Issue 5325 After some years as a school teacher he returned to Oxford in 1900 as a Fellow of University College, and in June 1902 he was appointed Lecturer in Divinity and assistant chaplain at Corpus Christi College.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=University intelligence|date=21 June 1902 |page=8 |issue=36800}}

In 1907, Peiles work "The Reproach of the Gospel: An Inquiry Into the Apparent Failure of Christianity As a General Rule of Life and Conduct, with Special Reference to the Present Time" was published.

From 1907 until 1910 he was Vicar of All Saints, Ennismore Gardens. In that year he became Archdeacon of Warwick, a post he held until 1921Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30: Oxford, OUP, 1929 p 1002 when he took up a similar role at Worcester. He retired in 1938.

Married Margaret Hester Drummond on 7 February 1911. Margaret died on 20 February 1940 only a few weeks before Peile himself in April the same year.