Charles Bertie (1683–1727) was an English Tory politician who sat for the borough of
New Woodstock for a few years on a family interest.
He was the sixth son of
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, and the eldest son by Lindsey's third wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope. In 1698, he was made a freeman of
Appleby-in-Westmorland
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. In the
1705 election, he contested the borough of
New Woodstock,
Oxfordshire on the interest of his half-first cousin
Lord Abingdon, then
Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Like the rest of his family, he was a Tory, and he voted against the Court candidate for the
Speakership,
John Smith, in 1705.
At the 1705 election, the
Duke of Marlborough
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, to whom the royal gift of
Blenheim Palace had brought great influence in Woodstock, had arranged for the return of his trusted lieutenant, General
William Cadogan, as the other member for the borough. By the
1708 election, Marlborough had replaced Abingdon as lord lieutenant of the county, and his influence was such that Bertie did not bother to contest the borough. Abingdon may have considered nominating him for
Oxfordshire at the
1710 election, but ultimately chose
Francis Clerke, whose nephew had married Bertie's first cousin Catherine.
Under the
Harley Ministry, Bertie attempted to obtain a captaincy in the
foot guards, but was not successful.
On 29 April 1714, he married Mary (d. 1725), daughter of Thomas Browne of
Addlethorpe and widow of Nicholas Newcomen of
Theddlethorpe. After her death, on 13 February 1726, he married Mary, daughter of Rev. Henry Marshall. Neither marriage produced children. After his death on 15 August 1727, he was buried at Theddlethorpe, leaving his estate to Lord Albemarle Bertie, his half-great-nephew.
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