Frederick George "Derick" Emmison was a British archivist, author and historian. He was County Archivist for Bedfordshire between 1925 and 1938, County Archivist for Essex between 1938 and 1969, a fou
Sir William Petre was Secretary of State to three successive Tudor monarchs, namely Kings Henry VIII and Edward VI, and Queen Mary I. He also deputised for the Secretary of State to Elizabeth I.
F. G. Emmison
…the country. In time the Essex Record Office became a publishing house for local history and Emmison became a prolific author. His Tudor Secretary: Sir William Petre at Court and Home was a "significant contribution to Tudor studies". His Elizabethan Life series "demonstrated the richness of sources for the period…
Sir William Petre. The sitter is identified both by his armorials (upper left) and in the cartellino (upper right). This form of cartellino was often added to portraits in the Lumley collection. A copy without the cartellino is among the Petre Pictures