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Ryerson, Peter
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Peter Ryerson is the great-great grandson of Egerton Ryerson. Born in 1937 in London, England, he has been involved throughout a good part of his life in the field of education, as both a teacher and elected councillor and chair of the education committee for the Borough of Hillingdon. His father was Barrington Nevitt Ryerson; his grandfather, George Egerton Ryerson; and his great-grandfather, Charles Egerton Ryerson. Peter Ryerson first contacted the Ryerson Archives in 1995 to request infrmation about his famous ancestor and to inform the Archives of the Ryerson Family Papers. Over the next several years, he corresponded extensively with the Archivist through e-mail, mainly with regard to the donation of the Ryerson Family Papers and the Portraits of Egerton Ryerson and his wife, Mary, to the Ryerson Archives. The Family Papers were acquired in 1996 (A.1996-099) and the Portraits in 1999 (A.1999-083). Peter Ryerson and his wife, Janet, visited the Archives in August, 1999, and were honoured at a special reception.