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Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet

Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, 3rd Baronet CBE (28 September 1895 – 13 December 1977) was a British historian.

Sir Charles Alexander Petrie

Born28 September 1895
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died13 December 1977
OccupationHistorian
NationalityBritish
EducationOxford degree

Early life edit

Born in Liverpool, he was the younger son of Sir Charles Petrie, 1st Baronet and his wife, Hannah.[1] He was educated at the University of Oxford, and in 1927 succeeded to the family baronetcy.

Career edit

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 of the people and army came over to the Stuart side, and there was never the disastrous retreat and thus, there was never a Battle of Culloden in 1746, all leading to a Jacobite restoration and to the successive reigns of James III (The Old Pretender), Charles III, Henry IX and the continued tenure of the House of Stuart until the 20th century. It also depicts the American Revolution as not taking place because of the judicious intervention of Charles Edward, George Washington going on to become a great British general, and other flights of fantasy.[2] He was a member of the Jacobite Royal Stuart Society.[citation needed]

Several of Petrie's books deal with Charles I's government towards which he was broadly sympathetic. He published biographies of Lord Bolingbroke, of the early-20th-century British cabinet minister Walter Long, and of three Spanish kings: Philip II, Charles III, and Alfonso XIII. Another biography of his dealt with a fourth notable Spaniard, Philip II's half-brother Don John of Austria.

During the 1930s Petrie flirted with the far right. Impressed at first by Benito Mussolini on whom he produced a short and respectful book in 1931, he attended the 1932 Volta Conference of fascists and sympathisers. Disposed initially to favour Sir Oswald Mosley, he joined in 1934 the broadly pro-Mosley January Club. At the same time, he remained publicly hostile towards Nazism,[3] and his later view of Mosley, as expressed in his 1972 memoir A Historian Looks at his World, was thoroughly unflattering.

Among Petrie's journalistic posts was that of literary editor for the generally-conservative New English Review. He supported, with reservations, Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco and was a friend of a leading pro-Franco diplomat, the 17th Duke of Alba. Along with NER editor Douglas Francis Jerrold, Petrie formed in 1937 a group concerned to put the Nationalist case on the fighting in the Spanish Civil War.[4] After 1945 he edited the Household Brigade Magazine, as well as writing regularly for the Illustrated London News and Catholic Herald, in addition to being co-editor (with Jerrold) of the New English Review's short-lived successor, English Review Magazine.

During the late 1930s, Petrie championed Neville Chamberlain but subsequently was an adherent, again with reservations, of Winston Churchill. In 1941, he attempted unsuccessfully to be adopted as Conservative Party candidate for Dorset South. He was rejected, according to Andrew Roberts in Eminent Churchillians, because he was too closely identified with appeasement.

He was appointed CBE in 1957.

Works edit

Articles edit

  • "Madrid and Its Life To-day," The Living Age, 3 July 1926.
  • "The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the Summer of 1715," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. XVIII, 1935.
  • "The Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II", The Contemporary Review, vol. 230, 1336 (1 May 1977): 242–247.

Arms edit

Coat of arms of Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet
 
Crest
A demi-eagle displayed Proper gazing at a sun Or.
Escutcheon
Azure on a bend between in chief a stag’s head couped and in base three crosses crosslet fitchée Argent as many escallops Gules.
Motto
Fide Sed Vide[5]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year ... 1925. p. 469.
  2. ^ Petrie, Charles (1934). "Appendix VI". The Stuart Pretenders: A History of the Jacobite Movement, [1688-1807]. Houghton Mifflin.
  3. ^ Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers of the Right, Constable, p. 41, 1980.
  4. ^ Stove, R. J. "In Search of Sir Charles Petrie," National Observer, No. 83, June/August 2010.
  5. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1956.

Bibliography edit

  • Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David, eds. (2010). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (107th ed.). New York: St Martin's Press.
  • Rayment, Leigh. . Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 25 May 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  • Mosley, Charles (2010). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 3 vols. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, Henry; Cokayne, George E (1937). Complete Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 40. Cassel.

External links edit

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Lindsay Haddon Petrie
Baronet
(of Carrowcarden)
1927–1977
Succeeded by
Charles Richard Borthwick Petrie

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Sir Charles Alexander Petrie 3rd Baronet CBE 28 September 1895 13 December 1977 was a British historian Sir Charles Alexander PetrieBt CBEBorn28 September 1895Liverpool England United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandDied13 December 1977OccupationHistorianNationalityBritishEducationOxford degree Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Works 3 1 Articles 4 Arms 5 Notes 5 1 Bibliography 6 External linksEarly life editBorn in Liverpool he was the younger son of Sir Charles Petrie 1st Baronet and his wife Hannah 1 He was educated at the University of Oxford and in 1927 succeeded to the family baronetcy Career editPetrie 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 of the people and army came over to the Stuart side and there was never the disastrous retreat and thus there was never a Battle of Culloden in 1746 all leading to a Jacobite restoration and to the successive reigns of James III The Old Pretender Charles III Henry IX and the continued tenure of the House of Stuart until the 20th century It also depicts the American Revolution as not taking place because of the judicious intervention of Charles Edward George Washington going on to become a great British general and other flights of fantasy 2 He was a member of the Jacobite Royal Stuart Society citation needed Several of Petrie s books deal with Charles I s government towards which he was broadly sympathetic He published biographies of Lord Bolingbroke of the early 20th century British cabinet minister Walter Long and of three Spanish kings Philip II Charles III and Alfonso XIII Another biography of his dealt with a fourth notable Spaniard Philip II s half brother Don John of Austria During the 1930s Petrie flirted with the far right Impressed at first by Benito Mussolini on whom he produced a short and respectful book in 1931 he attended the 1932 Volta Conference of fascists and sympathisers Disposed initially to favour Sir Oswald Mosley he joined in 1934 the broadly pro Mosley January Club At the same time he remained publicly hostile towards Nazism 3 and his later view of Mosley as expressed in his 1972 memoir A Historian Looks at his World was thoroughly unflattering Among Petrie s journalistic posts was that of literary editor for the generally conservative New English Review He supported with reservations Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco and was a friend of a leading pro Franco diplomat the 17th Duke of Alba Along with NER editor Douglas Francis Jerrold Petrie formed in 1937 a group concerned to put the Nationalist case on the fighting in the Spanish Civil War 4 After 1945 he edited the Household Brigade Magazine as well as writing regularly for the Illustrated London News and Catholic Herald in addition to being co editor with Jerrold of the New English Review s short lived successor English Review Magazine During the late 1930s Petrie championed Neville Chamberlain but subsequently was an adherent again with reservations of Winston Churchill In 1941 he attempted unsuccessfully to be adopted as Conservative Party candidate for Dorset South He was rejected according to Andrew Roberts in Eminent Churchillians because he was too closely identified with appeasement He was appointed CBE in 1957 Works editTwo Essays in Spanish History Hugh Egerton amp Co 1922 The White Rose A Historical Drama in Three Acts Hugh Egerton amp Co 1923 The History of Government Little Brown and Company 1929 Mussolini Holme Press 1931 The Jacobite Movement Eyre and Spottiswoode 1932 Monarchy Eyre and Spottiswoode 1933 The Stuart Pretenders A History of The Jacobite Movement 1688 1807 Houghton Mifflin Company 1933 The History of Spain Eyre And Spottiswoode 1934 with Louis Bertrand Spain Arrowsmith 1934 The Letters Speeches and Proclamations of King Charles I Cassell 1935 The Four Georges A Revaluation of the Period From 1714 to 1830 Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1935 William Pitt Duckworth 1935 Walter Long and his Times Hutchinson amp Co ltd 1936 Lords of the Inland Sea A Study of the Mediterranean Powers L Dickson Limited 1937 Bolingbroke Collins 1937 The Stuarts Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1937 The Chamberlain Tradition L Dickson Limited 1938 The Chamberlain Tradition Frederick A Stokes 1938 Revised from the earlier English edition to incorporate current events Louis XIV T Butterworth ltd 1938 The Life and Letters of The Right Hon Sir Austen Chamberlain K G P C M P Cassel 1939 1940 2 volumes Joseph Chamberlain Duckworth 1940 Twenty Years Armistice and After British Foreign Policy Since 1918 Eyre and Spottiswoode 1940 When Britain Saved Europe the Tale and the Moral Eyre and Spottiswoode 1941 George Canning Eyre amp Spottiswoode 2nd ed 1946 Diplomatic History 1713 1933 Hollis and Carter 1946 online The Private Diaries March 1940 to January 1941 of Paul Baudouin 1948 translator Earlier Diplomatic History 1492 1713 Hollis and Carter 1949 1 The Jacobite Movement The First Phase 1688 1716 Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1948 The Jacobite Movement The Last Phase 1716 1807 Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1950 Chapters of Life Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1950 The Duke of Berwick and His Son Some Unpublished Letters and Papers Eyre and Spottiswoode 1951 Monarchy in the Twentieth Century A Dakers 1952 Spain in the Modern World University of Nottingham Montague Burton International Relations Lectures 1952 The Marshal Duke of Berwick The Picture of an Age Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1953 Lord Liverpool and his Times J Barrie 1954 The Carlton Club Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1955 Wellington A Reassessment J Barrie 1956 The Powers Behind the Prime Ministers MacGibbon amp Kee 1958 The Jacobite Movement 1958 revision Daniel O Conor Sligo His Family and His Times National University of Ireland 1958 The Spanish Royal House G Bles 1958 The Victorians Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1960 The Modern British Monarchy Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1961 King Alfonso XIII and His Age Chapman amp Hall 1963 Philip II of Spain Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1963 Scenes of Edwardian Life Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1965 Don John of Austria Eyre amp Spottiswoode 1967 Great Beginnings In The Age Of Queen Victoria Macmillan amp Company 1967 The Letters of King Charles I Funk amp Wagnalls 1968 The Drift to World War 1900 1914 Benn 1968 King Charles III of Spain An Enlightened Despot Constable 1971 A Historian Looks at His World Sidgwick and Jackson 1972 The Great Tyrconnel A Chapter in Anglo Irish Relations Mercier Press 1972 King Charles Prince Rupert and the Civil War from Original Letters Routledge amp Kegan Paul 1974 ISBN 0710079699 Articles edit Madrid and Its Life To day The Living Age 3 July 1926 The Jacobite Activities in South and West England in the Summer of 1715 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society vol XVIII 1935 The Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II The Contemporary Review vol 230 1336 1 May 1977 242 247 Arms editCoat of arms of Sir Charles Petrie 3rd Baronet nbsp Crest A demi eagle displayed Proper gazing at a sun Or Escutcheon Azure on a bend between in chief a stag s head couped and in base three crosses crosslet fitchee Argent as many escallops Gules Motto Fide Sed Vide 5 Notes edit Whitaker s Peerage Baronetage Knightage and Companionage for the Year 1925 p 469 Petrie Charles 1934 Appendix VI The Stuart Pretenders A History of the Jacobite Movement 1688 1807 Houghton Mifflin Richard Griffiths Fellow Travellers of the Right Constable p 41 1980 Stove R J In Search of Sir Charles Petrie National Observer No 83 June August 2010 Burke s Peerage 1956 Bibliography edit Kidd Charles Williamson David eds 2010 Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage 107th ed New York St Martin s Press Rayment Leigh Petrie Archived from the original on 1 May 2008 Retrieved 25 May 2018 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint unfit URL link Mosley Charles 2010 Burke s Peerage and Baronetage Vol 3 vols Weidenfeld amp Nicolson Gibbs Vicary Doubleday Henry Cokayne George E 1937 Complete Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 40 Cassel External links editPortrait of Charles Petrie at the National Portrait Gallery Diplomatic History 1713 1932 1946 online Baronetage of the United Kingdom Preceded byEdward Lindsay Haddon Petrie Baronet of Carrowcarden 1927 1977 Succeeded byCharles Richard Borthwick Petrie Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sir Charles Petrie 3rd Baronet amp oldid 1158738785, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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