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Peter set records from the moment he was born - he weighed in at a then European record of 14lbs 11oz... |
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Peter never learned to swim. He said: "I can float on my back across the Atlantic, but turn me face down and it's over..." |
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Peter helped Sean Connery with his golf before the filming of Goldfinger, which involved James Bond playing against the eponymous villain at what is now Stoke Park GC... |
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A variety of potato - solanum tuberosum rex petrus to give it its scientific name - is called 'King Peter'... after Mr Alliss |
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Peter's boyhood dream was to be a tail gunner in the RAF. During his national service, however, he joined only the ground-based RAF regiment and was restricted to firing from terra firma... |
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Peter played in the Ryder Cup on eight occasions - in the days before the team became Europe of course. In 1963 he beat Arnold Palmer and halved with Tony Lema on the same day... |
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Peter owns up to reading only four books by the time he turned 40. Lorna Doone and Treasure Island were two. "I can't remember the other two," admits Peter... |
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