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Encyclopedia Britannica



PETER THE WILD BOY (fl. 17251785)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 295 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PETER THE WILD BOY (fl. 17251785) , a Hanoverian imbecile of unknown parentage, who, having been found living wild in the woods near Hanover in 1725, was brought to England by order of George I., whose
interest
  had been aroused in the unfortunate youth. An extraordinary amount of curiosity and speculation concerning Peter was excited in London, and the craze was the subject of a biting
satire
  by Swift, and of another entitled The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation, which has been attributed to Swift and
Arbuthnot
 ; Defoe also wrote on the subject, and Lord
Monboddo
  in his Origin and Progress of Language presents the idiot Peter as an
illustration
  of his theory of the evolution of
the human species. He lived to an advanced age, was seen by Lord
Monboddo
  in 1782, and died in 1785.
See
Henry
  Wilson, The Book of Wonderful Characters (London, 1869).


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