| |
| | Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Sir Peter Russell |
 | | Russell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, coming to England as a boy with his mother and younger brother, Hugh, the epidemiologist who died earlier this year. |
 | | In 1951 Russell astounded an audience by demonstrating that the Cantar de Mio Cid was not, as believed, the work of an early 12th century minstrel, but of a learned poet writing a century later. |
 | | Russell's working assumption that intelligent young scholars, properly supported and motivated, might be relied upon to get on with their research for themselves, was vindicated time and again as a steady stream of his pupils went on to win academic distinction. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1855273,00.html (763 words) |
|