Peregrine Worsthorne nasceu o 22 de dezembro de 1923 em Londres, Inglaterra. Foi casado com Lucinda Lambton e Claudie Marie-Helene de Colasse. Morreu o 4 de outubro de 2020 em Buckinghamshire, Inglaterra.
[on reaching 80] "Many of my contemporaries are popping off and I feel
a bit ashamed to be carrying on. Besides I find the uncertainties of
youth return in old age. When I was young I was told I must not
interrupt while adults were talking. Now that is exactly how I feel
when I hear young people in conversation."