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Peter Pett
Peter Pett may refer to: * Peter Pett (shipwright, died 1672) (1610–1672), English master-shipwright at Chatham Dockyard * Peter Pett (shipwright, died 1589) (?–1589), English master-shipwright at Deptford Dockyard * Sir Peter Pett (lawyer) (1630–1699), English lawyer and author See also * Pett dynasty {{hndis, Pett, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pett (shipwright, Died 1672)
Peter Pett (6 August 1610 – 1672) was an English Master Shipwright and Second Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. He protected his scale models and drawings of the King's Fleet during the Dutch Raid on the Medway, in Kent in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which was otherwise disastrous to the British Royal Navy. Life Pett was the son of the King's Master Shipwright Captain Phineas Pett. He was introduced to King Charles I of England in 1634 and was ordered to construct a new Third Rate ship of 500 tons at Woolwich Dockyard, to be named English ship Leopard (1635), ''Leopard''. With the construction of the ''Leopard'' underway, Charles decided that he would have a ship built larger and more ornate than any of her predecessors. In June 1634 while at Woolwich and on the ''Leopard'' with the king, Phineas Pett, Peter's father, related: "His Highness, calling me aside, privately acquainted me of his princely resolution for the building of a great new ship, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pett (shipwright, Died 1589)
Peter Pett (died 1589) was an English master-shipwright at Deptford. Life Peter Pett is described as the great-grandson of Thomas Pett of Skipton in Cumberland. But Skipton is in Yorkshire, and, though some of his kin may have settled in the north, it is more probable that he belonged to the family of the name which early in the fifteenth century owned property at Pett in the parish of Stockbury in Kent. Heywood stated in 1637 that for two hundred years and upwards men of the name had been officers and architects in the Royal Navy. It appears well established that Pett's father, also Peter, was settled at Harwich, probably as a shipbuilder. Pett himself was certainly in the service of the Crown from an early age; he was already master-shipwright at Deptford in the reign of Edward VI, and there he continued till his death on or about 6 September 1589. During this time he had a principal part in building most of the ships of the navy, though the details are wanting. Richard C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pett (lawyer)
Sir Peter Pett (1630 – 1699) was an English lawyer and author. Life Peter Pett, son of Peter Pett (1593 – 1652), master-shipwright at Deptford, grandson of Peter Pett of Wapping, shipbuilder, and great-grandson of Peter Pett (died 1589), was baptised in St. Nicholas Church, Deptford, on 31 October 1630. He was educated in St. Paul's School and at Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in 1645. After graduating BA he migrated to Pembroke College, Oxford, and in 1648 was elected to a fellowship at All Souls'. He then graduated BCL in 1650, was entered as a student at Gray's Inn, and settled there "for good and all" about a year before the Restoration. From 1661 to 1666 he sat in the Irish Parliament as MP for Askeaton. He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1664. When the Royal Society was formed, in 1663, Pett was one of the original fellows, elected on 20 May, but was expelled on 18 November 1675 for "not performing his obligation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |