Louis Gaston Corstorphine Peringuey, also known as Louis Gaston, was the son of Louis Albert Péringuey*, director of the South African Museum, Cape Town, and his wife Bertha Marcelis (or Marcellis). His third given name (Corstorphine) was presumably bestowed upon him in honour of a friend of his father, the geologist George S. Corstorphine*.
As a young boy Peringuey junior donated insects to the South African Museum during 1907 to 1909. In the latter year his father wrote in the museum's annual report: "Master Peringuey has assiduously collected the micro-coleoptera of the [Cape] Peninsula and has been very successful in obtaining numerous and rare kinds".
Peringuey qualified as a medical practitioner (MB ChB) at Victoria University, Manchester, England, in 1827 and settled in the Transvaal. He was appointed assistant medical officer by Simmer and Jack Mines, Ltd in May 1941. On 6 March 1930 in Pretoria he married Barbara Wells-Jones, with whom he had three surviving children.
