Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet
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Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet DL (1853 – 8 July 1920) was a Scottish businessman and local politician,
Lord Mayor of Liverpool The Lord Mayor of Liverpool is a largely ceremonial civic office of Liverpool City Council. The Lord Mayor is the ‘first citizen’ of Liverpool representing the city and acting as a focal point of community events and is also the Chair (off ...
in 1901–2.


Life

Petrie was born near
Newburgh, Fife Newburgh is a royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, at the south shore of the Firth of Tay. The town has a population of 2,171 (in 2011),Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Sco ...
, the son of Alexander Petrie of Carrowcarden, and went into the family fishery business; from 1855 his father was based in
Sligo Sligo ( ; , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of 20,608 in 2022, it is the county's largest urban centre (constituting 2 ...
, 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 Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde. It had a population of 25,939 at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830 ...
, and in
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. 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 were the sons of Petrie and his wife Hannah.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrie, Charles 1853 births 1920 deaths Nobility from Fife 19th-century Scottish businesspeople 20th-century Scottish businesspeople Mayors of Liverpool Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Deputy lieutenants of Lancashire People educated at Wesley College, Dublin Conservative Party (UK) councillors in Liverpool