Peter Simple
Peter Simple is the
pseudonym of Michael Wharton, who writes a comic column of the same name in the British
Daily Telegraph newspaper. The column pokes fun at what it sees as modern, fashionable ideas. In the column,
Dr Spacely-Trellis is the fictional
bishop of
Stretchford, a fictional
conurbation locationed somewhere in the
Midlands region of the
United Kingdom.
Peter Simple is an 1834 book written by
Frederick Marryat about a young British
midshipman during the
Napoleonic wars. It was originally released in a serialized form in 1833.