Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet (1853 – 9 July 1920) was a Scottish businessman and local politician, Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1901–2.[1]

Life

Petrie was born near Newburgh, Fife, the son of Alexander Petrie of Carrowcarden, and went into the family fishery business; from 1855 his father was based in Sligo, Ireland, with a fishery on the River Moy, which Petrie joined after education at Wesley College, Dublin. In 1876 he set up on his own in Manchester, subsequently moving to Liverpool.[2][3][4]

Petrie had salmon fisheries in Scotland and Ireland, and oyster fisheries in Ireland, at Fleetwood, and in Essex.[5] He was leader of the Liverpool Conservatives, knighted in 1903 after his term as Lord Mayor, and created a baronet in 1918.[1]

Family

Sir Edward Petrie, 2nd Baronet and Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet were the sons of Petrie and his wife Hannah.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Obituary:Sir Charles Petrie". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 9 July 1920. p. 9. Retrieved 13 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ↑ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Kelly's Directories. 2000. p. 814. ISBN 978-0-333-54577-5.
  3. ↑ "Death of Prominent Scot". Dundee Courier. 9 July 1920. p. 4. Retrieved 13 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ Ice and Cold Storage. Iliffe & Sons. 1920. p. 138.
  5. ↑ "Death of Sir Charles Petrie". Edinburgh Evening News. 9 July 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 13 June 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year ... 1925. p. 469.
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