Peter Borrow

Peter Borrow is a philologist who features in The Death of Johnathan Taylor and again as an amnesiac in The Maiden and the Shadow. He is a quiet philologist working on the breakup of Latin and the formation of the foundations of the romance languages during the breakdown of the Roman Empire. He is independently wealthy, his parents having left him a considerable inheritance, and he publishes philology more for his passion for the subject than from financial need.

The Maiden and the Shadow
'[Edit: Did some trading? Has masonic connections, friend of Jane Whiston]'