Peter grew up in Kirkcaldy and attended Fettes College in Edinburgh. An Army Scholar, he was commissioned into the Black Watch regiment via a Divinity Degree at St Andrew’s University. He was a Platoon Commander in Berlin and Northern Ireland before becoming Operations Officer in Hong Kong, where he was an ordained elder in St Barbara’s Church Stanley Fort, before returning to Scotland as Adjutant of the 1/51 Highland Regiment in Perth.

After leaving the Army, he moved into education. Following spells as the chaplain of Loretto School in Musselburgh, then the Perse School in Cambridge and finally Gordonstoun School in Moray, he became Headmaster of Ardvreck School in Crieff.

He was ordained and inducted as the full-time Minister of the Word and Sacrament of the Parish Church of St Cuthbert in Edinburgh in 2017. During his time at this historic church he was also chaplain to the McCraes Battalion Trust and the Convenery of Edinburgh Trades. In 2025, he was called  to be Associate Pastor (Education and Congregational Life) of the historic First (Scots) Presbyterian Church in  Charleston, South Carolina.

Peter became an Honorary Vice President of our Trust in March 2025.