Turville-Petre

Turville-Petre

Turville-Petre is a surname. People with this surname include:
*E. O. G. Turville-Petre (commonly known as Gabriel Turville-Petre), an English Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities at Oxford University
*Francis Turville-Petre, an English archaeologist, famous for discovering the 'Galilee Skull', and a friend of Christoped Isherwood and W. H. Auden
*Joan Turville-Petre, Lecturer in English, Anglo-Saxon and Ancient Icelandic at Oxford University


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