Charles Petrie (other)
Charles Petrie may refer to: * Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet (1853–1920), Scottish businessman and Lord Mayor of Liverpool * Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet (1895–1977), British historian * Charles Petrie (diplomat) (born 1959), British United Nations official, Executive Representative for Burundi * Charles Robert Petrie (1882–1958), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party * Charlie Petrie Charles Petrie (8 August 1895 – 8 March 1972) was an English professional footballer who played at inside-left for various clubs in the 1920s. Football career Petrie was born in West Gorton, Manchester and played as a youth for the nearby Ope ...

Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet DL (1853 – 8 July 1920) was a Scottish businessman and local politician, Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1901–2. 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. Petrie had salmon fisheries in Scotland and Ireland, and oyster fisheries in Ireland, at Fleetwood, and in Essex. He was leader of the Liverpool Conservatives, knighted in 1903 after his term as Lord Mayor, and created a baronet in 1918. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire. Family Sir Edward Petrie, 2nd Baronet and Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1895 – 13 December 1977) was a British historian. Early life Born i ...
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Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1895 – 13 December 1977) was a British historian. Early life Born in Liverpool, he was the younger son of Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet and his wife, Hannah. He was educated at the University of Oxford, and in 1927 succeeded to the family baronetcy. Career Petrie was known for his interest in royalism and Jacobitism, particularly for his 1926 essay in counterfactual history, ''If: A Jacobite Fantasy''. It has Bonnie Prince Charlie go on from Derby to Oxford (albeit to a cool reception), but just as all seems lost, the Duke of Newcastle appears in haste to tell him that George II, the head of the House of Hanover dynasty, has fled back to Hanover, and belatedly declares his loyalty. (It has been speculated by some historians that Newcastle, known to have flirted with Jacobitism, was actually contemplating a judicious "conversion" to the Stuart cause when the Prince's army reached Derby.) As a result, large elements ...
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Charles Petrie (diplomat)
Sir Charles James Petrie, 6th Baronet, OBE (born 16 September 1959) is a United Nations diplomat. A former investment banker and management consultant, he then worked for the United Nations, before going independent. Early life Petrie was educated at the American College in Paris, graduating BA in International Relations, and at INSEAD, where he gained the MBA degree. Career Work with the UN In 1989, Petrie was appointed as Chief of the UN Emergency Unit in Sudan, a position he held until 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he served as a Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer in Somalia. In April 1994 he was transferred to Rwanda, where he served as the UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, where he supported General Roméo Dallaire during the Rwandan genocide. In 1995, Petrie was transferred to New York, where he served as Chief of Africa II Section, in the Department of Humanitarian Affairs within the UN Secretariat. After a year he returned to the field, in this case the Middle East, an ...
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Charles Robert Petrie
Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian. A shopkeeper in Otahuhu, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944. Petrie unsuccessfully contested the Hauraki electorate in the against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party. He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, when he retired. He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery. Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... to represent the Hauraki electorate in its histor ...
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