Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (29 April 16861 January 1742), styled The Honourable Peregrine Bertie between 1686 and 1704, Lord Willoughby de Eresby between 1704 and 1715 and Marquess of Lindsey between 1715 and 1723, was a
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1708 until 1715 when he was called to the House of Lords.
Early life
Bertie was the second and eldest surviving son of
Robert Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby (subsequently 4th Earl of Lindsey) and his first wife Mary Wynn, daughter of
Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet
Sir Richard Wynn, 4th Baronet (1625β1674) was Sheriff of Caernarvonshire and twice a member of Parliament for the same county.
Biography
Sir Richard succeeded his father Sir Owen Wynn at Gwydir in 1660. His mother was Grace Williams, a niece o ...
. He became Lord Willoughby and heir to other titles on the death of his elder brother in 1704.
Career
At the
1708 British general election
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The election saw the Whigs finally gain a majority in the House of Commons, and by November ...
Lord Willoughby was returned as a
Member of Parliament
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for
Lincolnshire
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with his father's support. Although his father was a Whig, Willoughby acted as a Tory. He sat on a drafting committee for the
Boston
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church bill, and a committee of inquiry into the laws excluding
placemen
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William and Mary
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. He acted against the Whigs in an electoral dispute. Although nominated to the committee examining the arrangements for the trial of
Dr Sacheverell, he voted against the impeachment in 1710. He was returned as a Tory at the
1710 election and listed as one of the 'worthy patriots' who detected the mismanagements of the previous administration, and a 'Tory patriot' who opposed the continuation of the
war
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in 1711. He was also a member of the
October Club
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. He sat on drafting committees for bills to build a waterworks near Boston and to help drain the
Ancholme Level. As a
Hanoverian Tory
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, he voted against the expulsion of Richard Steele in March 1714. He did not stand at the
1715 general election but was summoned to the
House of Lords
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by a
writ of acceleration
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in his father's
Barony of Willoughby de Eresby on 16 March 1715.
[
Lord Willougby married Jane Brownlow, daughter of ]Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet
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He was born on 26 June 1659, ...
in June 1711. He was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber
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to George I from 1719 to 1727. In 1723, on the death of his father, he inherited the rest of the family titles, and the hereditary Great Office of Lord Great Chamberlain
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. He also inherited the Lincolnshire seats at Grimsthorpe Castle
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and Eresby. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
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in succession to his father in 1724.[ He was receiver of the Duchy of Lancaster rents in Lincolnshire from 1728 to his death, and Lord Warden and Chief ]Justice in Eyre
In English law, the justices in eyre were the highest magistrates, and presided over the ''court of justice-seat'', a triennial court held to punish offenders against the forest law and enquire into the state of the forest and its officers ('' eyr ...
north of the Trent from 1734 to his death. He had a seat on the Foundling Hospital
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's board of governors when the charity was founded in 1739.[
Ancaster's wife died on 25 August 1736. He died on 1 January 1742, having had seven children:
*]Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (171412 August 1778), styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1715 to 1723 and Marquess of Lindsey from 1735 to 1742, was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
...
(1714β1778)
*Lord Albemarle Bertie (died 16 May 1765), blinded early in his youth, a gambler and sportsman depicted by Hogarth
* Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1729β1809)
*Lady Mary Bertie (died 23 May 1774), married on 21 February 1747 Samuel Greatheed
*Lady Albinia Bertie (died 12 February 1754), married in 1744 Francis Beckford, no issue
*Lady Jane Bertie (died 21 August 1793), married on 31 March 1743 General Edward Mathew
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and had issue
*Lady Caroline Bertie (died 4 June 1744), married George Dewar
References
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