Edward Petre

Hon. Edward Robert Petre of Stapleton Park (28 September 1794 – 8 June 1848) was an English horse racer and politician. Early life Petre was born on 28 September 1794 and came from an old, and prominent, English Catholic family, based at Writtle Park in Essex. He was the third, but second surviving son of Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre (1742–1801), whose peerage dated from 1603. His mother was Petre's second wife, the former Juliana Barbara Howard, who was 27 years younger than his father. Upon his father’s death in 1801, his mother was appointed his guardian. His sister, Hon. Julia Maria Petre, was the wife of Sir Samuel Brooke-Pechell, 3rd Baronet. His father’s first wife, Anne Howard, was a niece of Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk and his elder half-brother, Robert Edward Petre, 10th Baron Petre, married Mary Bridget Howard, Edward's maternal aunt. Both Edward's aunt Mary and his mother Juliana were sisters of Bernard Howard, who succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of Norfolk in 1815 upon the death of their cousin, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Edward's nephew William became the 11th Baron Petre in 1809. His paternal grandparents were Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre, a renowned horticulturist, and Lady Henrietta Anna Mary Barbara Radclyffe (daughter of the 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, who was the grandson of King Charles II by his mistress Moll Davis). His maternal grandparents were Juliana (née Molyneux) Howard and Henry Howard of Glossop, a descendant of Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel). Career