Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Peter Pett
Sir Peter Pett,
POLITICAL WRITER,
Was a descendant of Peter Pett (a Cumberland man). Master Builder of the Royal Navy to Queens Mary and Elizabeth, and born at Deptford in 1620. He was educated at St. Paul's School and at Oxford, and subsequently studied law at Gray's Inn. He held the appointments of Judge of the Admiralty and Advocate-General in Ireland, where he was knighted by the Duke of Ormonde. He died at his house in the Strand, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of several works including "The Memoirs of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey," in 1693. His uncle, Phineas Pett, ship-builder to James I. and Charles I., was born at Deptford, in 1570.