Peter Kilgour

Peter Kilgour is known today chiefly as the co-author of The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth, a nonfiction work published in the early 1900s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and library collections. The book was written with Thomas Woodhouse and focuses on the cultivation, processing, spinning, and weaving of jute.

Rather than writing fiction or memoir, Kilgour's surviving work points to a clear interest in industry and manufacturing. His best-known book is a careful, informative account of an important global textile business at a time when jute was widely used for sacks, cloth, and other everyday materials.

Little biographical information about his personal life was readily confirmed from the sources available here. What remains clear is that his name endures through a specialized work that still serves readers interested in industrial history, textiles, and how goods were made in the early modern manufacturing era.