Peter Holmes

Sir Peter Fenwick Holmes (27 September 1932 – 8 March 2002) was a British businessman who was the chairman of Shell Transport and Trading from 1985 to 1993 and chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group from 1992 to 1993.

Early life Holmes was born in Athens, and lived in Hungary for a time, as his father had a company there, and his mother was American. His grandfather and great grandfather lived in Turkey, where they worked for the Levant consular service. There were other mountaineering achievements during the two year visit to the Himalayas with his wife Judy, who was also a mountaineer.

They had three children and remained married until 1999. He entered into a second marriage with Mary Snead. He died of leukemia in March 2002 at the age of 69. His publications included Mountains and a monastery (1958), Nigeria, giant of Africa (1985), Turkey, a timeless bridge (1988), Türkye (1988).