Martin Petrie
Martin Petrie (1823–1892) was an English army officer and writer. Petrie, his wife and his daughter
Life
He was born on 1 June 1823, at the Manor House,
On 14 April 1846 Petrie entered the army as an ensign in the Royal Newfoundland Corps, and served for 11 years in North America, becoming a lieutenant on 7 January 1848 and captain on 5 May 1854. On 26 January 1855 he was transferred to the
In May 1856 Petrie joined the
Petrie read papers on military matters at the
His daughter
Works
In 1860, during his first year at the War Office, Petrie brought out a standard work in three volumes, The Strength, Composition, and Organisation of the Armies of Europe, giving the annual revenue and military expenditure of each country, with its total forces in peace and war. In 1863 he published a volume giving more detailed information on the British army, The Organisation, Composition, and Strength of the Army of Great Britain, which reached a fifth edition in 1867. Petrie also compiled two technical volumes, Equipment of Infantry and Hospital Equipment (1865–6), forming part of a series on army equipment.[1]
Family
Petrie married Eleanora Grant, youngest daughter of William Macdowall of Woolmet House,
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ISBN 978-0-87413-697-5.
- ^ a b Jeffrey Cox, ‘Petrie, Irene Eleanora Verita (1864–1897)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 18 June 2017
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22053. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30905. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1896). "Petrie, Martin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 45. London: Smith, Elder & Co.