Edward Peel (big-game fisherman)

Sir Edward Townley Peel, KBE, DSO, MC (31 May 1884 – 6 September 1961) was a British army officer, businessman and amateur sportsman. He fought throughout World War I in three overseas theatres of war, rising in rank from private to colonel. He was a member of a mercantile family of Alexandria and spent much of his life in Egypt, serving as chairman of Victoria College there. In 1932, he held the world record for the heaviest Atlantic bluefin tuna caught with rod and line at 798 pounds (362 kg).