Edward Robert Petre

Edward Robert Petre of Stapleton Park (28 September 1794 – 8 June 1848) was an English horse racer and politician.

Petre was born on 28 September 1794 and came from an old, and prominent, English Catholic family, based at Writtle Park in Essex.

In 1827, he won £15,000 at a race and celebrated his win with a "grand ball" at Stapleton Park,[2] a mansion designed by John Carr.

He was the first Catholic sheriff to be appointed after emancipation, as George IV stated Petre was a "good fellow ... he had had some concerns with him in racing and he did not mind him.

While in the House, he voted "to punish only those guilty of bribery at the Dublin election and against the censure motion on the Irish administration.

[2] Ilchester was disfranchised by the Reform Act 1832, but Petre renewed his connection with York, where he was returned at the general election of 1832 to succeed Hon.

[5] In 1838, Petre sold Stapleton Park to John Watson Barton of Saxby Hall, who had previously rented the property, and it was where one of his daughters was born in 1835.