I have interacted over the years with Peter through being part of and then organising the annual Armitage Lecture and Workshop of the MRC Biostatistics Unit. Each year, over the last eight years, I would send Peter emails to invite him to the Armitage Day and to let him know who the Armitage Lecturer would be that year and to follow-up after the event. Peter would always graciously reply with warm and generous emails. He always expressed his pleasure that the Armitage event was still continuing and without fail would ask me to pass on his thanks to the various speakers of the Workshop. Moreover, he would always send a personal email to the Armitage Lecturers, who I know, were so very pleased and moved by this act of kindness and generousity. Peter was a remarkable person and it was an absolute delight when I met him for the first time back at the start of the Armitage Lecture series in 2003 and thereafter. His contributions to Medical Statistics are enormous. However, more fundamentally, Peter, beyond statistics, was someone you could look up to as a person. His generousity of spirit and warmness permeated all that he did. It was a pleasure to have met Peter and to communicate with him over the years. He will be missed!