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• Family of Petre —     Family of Petre     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Family of Petre     The Petres are one of those staunch and constant families, which have played a great part in the preservation of the Catholic Faith in England. There is no volume of the… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Petre Borilă — (born Iordan Dragan Rusev; Bulgarian: Йордан Драган Русев, Yordan Dragan Rusev ; 1906 1973) was a Romanian communist politician who briefly served as Vice Premier under the Communist regime. A member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) since… …   Wikipedia

• Petre P. Carp — (June 29, 1837 – June 19, 1919), commonly rendered as P. P. Carp, was a Romanian conservative politician and literary critic who served as a Prime Minister of Romania for two terms (July 19, 1900 February 27, 1901 and January 14, 1911 April 10,… …   Wikipedia

• Petre, Sir Edward, 2nd Baronet — ▪ English Jesuit byname  Father Petre   born 1631, London died May 15, 1699, Watten, Flanders  English Jesuit, favourite of King James II of Great Britain.       Educated in France, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1652 and took orders in 1671 …   Universalium

• Petre Mais — Stuart Petre Brodie Mais (1885 1975) was a prolific British author, journalist and broadcaster. The son of a Bristolian rector, he was born in Birmingham but raised in Tansley, Derbyshire, where his family moved shortly afterwards. After… …   Wikipedia

• Family name — Last name redirects here. For the song, see Last Name. Family name Frankenstein, an example of compound German family names which were typical for Jews (New Jewish Cemetery, Prague) A family name (in Western contexts often referred to as a last… …   Wikipedia

• Petre — Of all the surnames which derive from the saints and disciples of the Christian church, Petros meaning The rock has provided the world with the greatest number of both given names and the later medieval surnames. In their different spellings… …   Surnames reference

• William Petre, 4th Baron Petre — (1626 – 5 January 1684), was an English peer, a victim of the Popish Plot.Petre was the eldest son of Robert Petre, third Baron Petre (1599–1638), and Mary (1603–1685), daughter of Anthony Maria Browne, second Viscount Montagu, who had been… …   Wikipedia

• Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre — (March 1742 Ingatestone Hall – 2 July 1801) was a British peer.Lord Petre was the son of Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre (1713 1742), a reknown horticulturist, and Lady Henrietta Anna Mary Barbara Radclyffe (1714 1760), daughter of the 3rd Earl of… …   Wikipedia

• Baron Petre — (pronounced Peter ), of Writtle, in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1603 for Sir John Petre. He represented Essex in parliament and served as Lord Lieutenant of Essex. Lord Petre was the son of Sir… …   Wikipedia