Peter the Wild Boy (born c. 1713; died 22 February 1785) was a boy from Hanover in Germany who was found living wild in the woods.

He had been living a feral existence for an unknown time when he was found and walked on all fours. He could not be taught to speak a language and is now thought to have suffered from Pitt-Hopkins syndrome.

Peter was found in the Hertswold Forest by a party of hunters led by George I while on a visit to his homeland and brought to Great Britain in 1726 by order of his daughter-in-law Caroline of Ansbach, the Princess of Wales. He was the subject of much curiosity in London.

Caroline, Princess of Wales took an interest in Peter's welfare, and in 1726, after the initial public curiosity began to subside, she arranged for Dr Arbuthnot to oversee his education. All efforts to teach him to speak, read or write failed.

After he was discharged from the supervision of Dr Arbuthnot, he was entrusted to the care of Mrs. Titchbourn, one of the Queen's bedchamber women. Mrs. Titchbourn usually spent a few weeks every summer at the house of Mr. James Fenn, a yeoman farmer, at Axter's End, in the parish of Northchurch. Peter was left there in the care of Mr. Fenn.

Peter lived to an estimated 70 years of age and was buried in the churchyard St Mary's Northchurch. The grave is just outside the main door of the church.

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