Montague Peregrine Albemarle Bertie, 12th Earl of Lindsey,
DL (3 September 1861 – 2 January 1938), styled Lord Bertie from 1877 until 1899, was an English nobleman, the only son of
Montague Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey
Montague Peregrine Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey, DL (26 December 1815 – 27 January 1899), styled The Honourable Montague Bertie until 1877, was an English nobleman, soldier, and landowner, the second son of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey ...
.
Early life
Bertie was born on 3 September 1861. He was the only son of
Montague Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey
Montague Peregrine Bertie, 11th Earl of Lindsey, DL (26 December 1815 – 27 January 1899), styled The Honourable Montague Bertie until 1877, was an English nobleman, soldier, and landowner, the second son of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey ...
and the former Felicia Elizabetha Welby, the second daughter of Rev. John Earle Welby, Rector of Hareston (and son of
Sir William Earle Welby, 1st Baronet
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Early life
William ...
) and Felicia Eliza Hole (a daughter of Rev.
George Hole,
Bishop of Norwich
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).
His father succeeded to the earldom in 1877 upon the death of his uncle,
George Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey, who died unmarried.
His paternal aunt,
Lady Charlotte, was a prominent linguist who married twice, first to
John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, and, after his death, to
Charles Schreiber
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Early life
Schreiber was born at Colchester, the eldest son ...
,
MP for
Cheltenham
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and
Poole
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.
His paternal grandparents were
Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey and Charlotte Susannah Elizabeth Layard (a daughter of the
Very Reverend
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Charles Layard,
Dean of Bristol
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). After his grandfather's death, his grandmother remarried to the Rev. William Peter Pegus, with whom she had Maria Antoinetta Pegus. His aunt Maria married
Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly
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.
Among his cousins were
Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
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and
Lord Douglas Gordon.
He was educated at
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and
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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.
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Career
On 30 March 1881, he was appointed a second lieutenant
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Australia
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in the Northampton and Rutland Militia
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(later the 4th Battn, The Northamptonshire Regiment
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). Between 1885 and 1888, he served as an '' aide-de-camp'' to Lord Carrington
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, then Governor of New South Wales
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.[
Lord Bertie was promoted ]Captain
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on 29 June 1889, and resigned his commission on 4 May 1891. On 8 September 1893, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire
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.[The ''London Gazette'', no. 26439, 8 September 1893.]
In 1899, he succeeded his father as Earl of Lindsey
Earl of Lindsey is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for the 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (see Baron Willoughby de Eresby for earlier history of the family). He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1635 to 1636 an ...
.[
]
Personal life
While in Australia
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, Lord Bertie met and on 12 February 1890 married Millicent Cox (d. 1931),[ the eldest daughter of the prominent Australian surgeon Dr. James Charles Cox. Together, they were the parents of one daughter:]David Liddell-Grainger
David Ian Liddell-Grainger (26 January 1930 – 12 March 2007) was a Scottish politician.
Personal life
David Liddell-Grainger was the son of Captain Henry Hubert Liddell-Grainger (1886–1935), Scots Guards, JP, DL, of a landed gentr ...
; after his death, married Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
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The only child of James Charles Barclay-Harvey, of Dinnet House, Aberd ...
in 1938.Viscount Cullen
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Derbyshire
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(which he never claimed) became extinct.
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