Louis Hayes Petit (9 November 1774 – 13 November 1849) was an English barrister and politician.

Life

Grave of Louis Hayes Petit in Highgate Cemetery

He was a younger son of the physician

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, who died in 1780, and was educated at Newcombe's School. Prepared for university by Samuel Parlby, he entered Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1796, M.A, in 1799. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1801, and practised as a barrister to 1821. Petit was elected Member of Parliament for in 1827, through a family connection with

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, who managed the constituency for the patron Elizabeth Sophia Lawrence. He support parliamentary reform, and was returned again in 1831. He did not stand the 1832 election for the reformed parliament, having lost Elizabeth Lawrence's support. Petit became a fellow of the

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, in 1803, and of the

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in 1807. He was a fellow also of the

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, Geological Society and

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. His heir was

John Louis Petit John Louis Petit (also known as The Reverend John Louis Petit; 31 May 1801 – 1 December 1868) was an artist and architectural historian whose paintings of buildings and landscapes, almost exclusively in watercolour, complemented his activities ...

. He died on the 13th November 1849 and is buried on the western side of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petit, Louis Hayes 1774 births 1849 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery English barristers UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Geological Society of London Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies People educated at Newcome's School Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Members of Lincoln's Inn