Peter Bander van Duren (30 July 1930, in Cologne – 21 April 2004) was a British writer on heraldry and orders of knighthood.

Biography

Peter Bander immigrated to the United Kingdom from Germany and became a British citizen in 1962.

In 1976, he changed his name by deed poll to Peter Bander van Duren, adding a slight alteration of his mother's maiden name, von Duren, to his father's surname.

Bander van Duren worked as a teacher in a borstal, a prison for youth, and in Edith Cavell School, a secondary school in a deprived part of Islington, and then taught Religious & Moral Education at Wall Hall Callege, Cambridge Institute of Education, a teachers' training college in Aldenham, Herts. In 1966 he became co-founder and joint-Managing Director of Colin Smythe, a small British publishing house.

Works

A Roman Catholic, Bander van Duren wrote several books on heraldry, some of them in coöperation with Bruno Bernard Heim or Archbishop Hygenius Eugene Cardinale, the Apostolic Delegate to the United Kingdom.^[1]

Honours

• Knight Grand Cross with Gold Star, Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George of the Royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.