Peter Turner Winskill (1834-1912) In any history of the Temperance Movement, Peter Turner Winskill stands proud as a historian, advocate, poet and songwriter. It is through his historical writings that we have a cannon of Temperance biography. His work assists to illustrate the lives of wide cross section of renowned Temperance workers dating from the dawn of the movement to the end of the 19th Century. Winskill's committment to Temperance was informed by his own experience