Sir Peter Petrie, 5th Baronet

Sir Peter Charles Petrie, 5th Baronet, CMG (7 March 1932 – 28 October 2021) was a British diplomat.

He was posted to the Cabinet Office 1965–67, the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York 1969–73 and was Head of Chancery at Bonn 1973–76.

He returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as head of the European Integration Department 1976–79 before being appointed Minister in the Paris embassy 1979–85 and finally British Ambassador to Belgium 1985–89.

They had two sons and a daughter, including Charles James (born 1959), later the 6th baronet.

[1] Petrie died on 28 October 2021, at the age of 89, and was succeeded by his elder son.