From the early 1920s, he began regularly writing humorous pieces for Punch and other magazines, and after a period as a lecturer at the University College of the South West of England (later to become the University of Exeter), Peach left academia to become a full-time writer.
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Peach, the son of a Unitarian minister, was born in 1890 in Sheffield, and attended Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University before taking up a postgraduate position at University of Göttingen in 1912, later earning a PhD at Sheffield University in 1921 for a thesis on the development of drama in France, Spain and England in the 17th century.
avant-garde | Russian avant-garde | Peach | peach | avant garde | La Garde de Chambonas | David Peach | Avant-garde | James and the Giant Peach | Zarah Garde-Wilson | Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de La Garde de Chambonas | Plunder of Peach and Plum | Peach Melba | Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania | Peach Bottom Township | Miss Peach | La Garde Township, Mahnomen County, Minnesota | La Garde Township | La Garde-Freinet | Jesse Peach | James and the Giant Peach (film) | Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale | Green peach aphid that has been killed by the fungus ''Pandora neoaphidis | Garde Écossaise | Death of Blair Peach | Daryl Peach | Corps de Garde | COBRA (avant-garde movement) | Château de Joyeuse Garde | York and Peach Bottom Railway |
Released on 17 May 1943 and running at 96 minutes in black and white, the film was written by L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur, while the songs were written by George Formby with Fred Godfrey, Fred E. Cliffe and Eddie Latta.