John Patrick Lionel Petre, 18th Baron Petre, KCVO, DL (born 4 August 1942) is a British peer and landowner who was the Lord Lieutenant of Essex, succeeding Robin Neville, 10th Baron Braybrooke in October 2002.
[1] His father served in World War II as a 2nd Lt. in the Coldstream Guards and as a Capt.
Petre is associated with local organizations such as Essex Boys and Girls Clubs, Brentwood Arts Council; Brentwood Shakespeare Company; Ingatestone and Fryerning Horticultural Society, Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Ingatestone, Brentwood Theatre; Ingatestone and Fryerning Angling Club; CAB (Brentwood) Appeal Fund; Ingatestone and Fryerning Historical and Archeological Society; and patron of the Billericay based Hamelin Trust and the registered charity Grapevine Essex; Chairman of Trustees of the Ginge Petre Almshouses in Ingatestone High Street, President of Essex County Scouts, Stock and Buttsbury Heritage Society and St John Ambulance Essex.
[4] In December 2016, it was announced that Petre would deliver a Christmas message for the people of Essex.
On 8th April 2024, Lady Petre passed away after a short illness, predeceased twenty years earlier by her youngest son, Mark.