He was returned to Thomas Fenn's farm, and had a special leather collar with his name and address made for him to wear in future, should he ever stray again. Some days later, he was identified as Peter the Wild Boy, possibly through a description of him in the London Evening Post. The frightened inmates were hastily released and one aroused considerable curiosity on account of his remarkable appearance, excessively hirsute and strong, and the nature of the sounds he made, which led some to describe him as an orangutan. As the fire spread, the local gaol became engulfed in smoke and flame. On 22 October 1751, a fire broke out in the parish of St Andrew's in Norwich. Advertisements were placed in newspapers offering a reward for his safe return. In the late summer of 1751, Peter went missing from Broadway Farm and could not be traced. Fenn, Peter was transferred to the care of James's brother, Thomas, at another farmhouse, called Broadway, where he lived with the several successive tenants of that farm, and with the same government pension, to the time of his death. Fenn, who was allowed ВЈ35 a year for his support and maintenance. James Fenn, a yeoman farmer, at Axter's End, in the parish of Northchurch, Hertfordshire. Titchbourn usually spent a few weeks every summer at the house of Mr.

Titchbourn, one of the Queen's bedchamber women, with a handsome pension annexed to the charge. St Mary's Church, Northchurch, HertfordshireДЄfter he was discharged from the supervision of Dr Arbuthnot, he was entrusted to the care of Mrs.

Peter is shown wearing a green coat and holding oak leaves and acorns in his right hand. The interior designer and painter William Kent included a depiction of Peter in a large painting of King George I's court that today hangs on the east wall of the King's Staircase at Kensington Palace in London. All efforts to teach him to speak, read or write failed. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, in his Origin and Progress of Language presents Peter as an illustration of his theory of the evolution of the human species.Д¬aroline, 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. Daniel Defoe also wrote on the subject in his pamphlet Mere Nature Delineated. The craze was the subject of a biting satire by Jonathan Swift, and of another entitled The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation, which has been attributed to Swift and John Arbuthnot. After Peter's transportation to Britain, curiosity and speculation concerning Peter was excited in London.

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