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William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre | |
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| Born | 24 June 1575 |
| Died | 5 May 1637 (aged 61) |
| Buried | St Edmund and St Mary's Church, Ingatestone |
| Noble family | Baron Petre |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Somerset |
| Issue | Robert Petre, Elizabeth Petre |
| Father | John Petre, 1st Baron Petre |
| Mother | Mary Waldegrave |
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William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre (24 June 1575 – 5 May 1637) was an English peer and Member of Parliament.
He was born the son of Sir John Petre, 1st Baron Petre and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and the Middle Temple.[2] William and his family were recusants – people who adhered to the Roman Catholic faith after the English Reformation.
He was elected MP for Essex in 1597, knighted in 1603 and inherited the Barony and the Ingatestone estate on his father's death in 1613. In 1623 he was appointed justice of the peace for Essex but, due to his uncompromising recusancy, he was dismissed in 1625 from the Magistracy and deprived of all of his other public offices.[2]
- ^ Strong, Roy (1969). The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- ^ a b "PETRE, William (1575–1637), of Ingatestone, Essex". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 April 2012.