Peter Fretchville

Sir Peter Fretchville (c. 1571 – 9 April 1634) (Frescheville/Frechvile/Fretchvile, etc) of Staveley, Derbyshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 and from 1621 to 1622. In 1604 he built Staveley Hall, which survives today.

Origins He was the son of Peter Fretchvile of Staveley by his second wife Margaret Kaye, daughter of Arthur Kaye of Woodsome Hall, Almondbury, Yorkshire. His grandfather, also Peter Fretchville of Staveley, who fought at the battle of Pinkie, died in November 1559. His father died in 1582, and an inventory was made of the household goods at Staveley.

Career He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1587. He entered the Middle Temple in 1591 but in 1596 petitioned his Inn to be allowed to keep his chamber since the business of managing his several estates in Derbyshire prevented him from occupying it for the statutory eight weeks. and widow of Sir Hewett Osborne (d. c.1600) of Parsloes, Essex. By Joyce he had one son and two daughters, including: John Frescheville, 1st Baron Frescheville (1607-1682), raised to the peerage in 1665 but died without male children when the title became extinct. Secondly in 1620 to Isabel Neville, daughter of Henry (or Percy) Neville of Grove, Nottinghamshire, and widow of Sir Richard Harpur (or Hastner) (d.1619) of Hemington, Leicestershire, without children.

Death and burial Fretchville died at the age of about 62 and asked in his will to be buried in the church at Staveley.