Francis Loraine Petre
Francis Loraine Petre OBE was a British civil servant in India and a military historian upon his retirement. He wrote a twovolume regimental history of the Norfolk Regiment, but is best known for his works on the Napoleonic Wars. The grandson of the 11th Baron Petre, he was educated at Oscott College and joined the Bar in 1880. He took the civil service exam and subsequently joined the Indian Civil Service. He retired as Commissioner of Allahabad in 1900.
F. Loraine Petre descended from an aristocratic English Catholic family, the House of Petre. His father, the Honorable Edmund George Petre, was bornJune 1829 , in Londons Marylebone district he was the son of William Petre, 11th Baron Petre, and his second wife, Emma Agnes Howard. Edmund married Marianna Jane Kerr, born in 1831 in Midlothian , Scotland, the daughter of the accountant and stock broker Lorraine M. Kerr, Esquire, They marriedJune 1851, at her home atIndia Street in Glasgow, Lanarckshire. Edmund Petre worked as a stockbroker.
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