Petre Collection

Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Champion (Scissors) Ltd, Champion Works, Petre Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire -- Rebuilding British Kitchens. Offer of Kumfi-Kut kitchen scissors when limited supplies permit, in a postwar letter

Petre - Lord Petre

Method of refining saltpeter for making gunpowder
Method of refining saltpeter (potassium nitrate) for making gunpowder. circa 18th century

Lord and Lady Petre pictured at Tregye, Perranwell, Cornwall shortly after returning from their honeymoon. Lady Catherine (Kitty) Petre

Edward Petre
EDWARD PETRE known as Father Peters Jesuit, confessor and counsellor to James II Date: 1631 - 1699

Lady Petre
Lady Catherine (Kitty) Petre, formerly Catherine Margaret Boscawen, wife of Lionel Goerge Carroll, 16th Baron Petre. The 16th Baron, son of the 15th Baron and Julia Mary Cavendish-Taylor

Miniature - Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, MC
Miniature portrait of Major Sir Frederick FitzWygram, M.C. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. Born 1884, died 1920. Captured on the 17th May 1915 (Battle of Festubert) commanding F Company

Peers of the Realm who had joined up, WW1
Double page spread from The Sketch showing portraits of peers of the realm who had joined up during the early weeks of the First World War

Lady Petres milking school, WW1
Lady Catherine Petre, formerly Catherine Margaret Boscawen, wife of Lionel Goerge Carroll, 16th Baron Petre. The 16th Baron, son of the 15th Baron and Julia Mary Cavendish-Taylor

Baroness Furnivall by Madame Yevonde. Mary Frances Katherine Petre, 19th Baroness Furnivall (1900-1968) married William Herbert Shelley Dent in 1932. She was the only child of the 14th Baron Petre

Anne Maria Hughes
ANNE MARIA HUGHES (nee Petre) the wife of Arthur Hughes, idly plucking the strings of her guitar. Date: ? - 1864

Hon Mrs Victor Bruce (born Mildred Mary Petre) (1895-1990)
Hon Mrs Victor Bruce (born Mildred Mary Petre), 1895-1990, alongside her Blackburn Bluebird IV, G-ABDS. Both are under the wing of an American-built Fokker F-32, NC-333N

Lady Elizabeth Petre by Madame Yevonde
The Hon. Elizabeth Petre, born 1915, photographed in fashionable high-necked jacket and cap of corduroy by Madame Yevonde shortly before her marriage to Mr Robert Healing. Date: 1934

Kay Petre & E. Wisdom judging coachwork at Morris Rally
Kay Petre (probably the best known female racing driver before the war), and E. Wisdom, another well known female racing motorist

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