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 an English
peer.
Early life
Bertie was born in 1714 and, beginning, in 1715, was styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby. He was the eldest son of
Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and Jane Brownlow (a daughter of
Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet).
Among his younger siblings were Lord Albemarle Bertie (a gambler and sportsman who was blinded early in his youth),
Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Lady Mary Bertie (wife of
Samuel Greatheed), Lady Albinia Bertie (wife of Francis Beckford), Lady Jane Bertie (wife of Gen.
Edward Mathew), and Lady Caroline Bertie (wife of George Dewar).
Career
On the death of his father in 1742, he succeeded him in the dukedom and as
Lord Great Chamberlain
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and
Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
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, and was appointed to the
Privy Council.
He gained the rank of
Major-General on 19 January 1755,
Lieutenant-General
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on 3 February 1759 and
General
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on 25 May 1772.
For some time in the 1750s, he sought to establish a series of mines in the upper Conwy valley in Wales. For this purpose, he engaged the German immigrant,
Diederich Wessel Linden as his agent.
Personal life
He married, firstly, Elizabeth ( Blundell) Nicoll (d. 1743), widow of
Charles Gounter Nicoll, on 22 May 1735. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Blundell of Basingstoke, Hampshire, whose mother,
Alice Blunden, was the alleged victim of a notorious premature burial.
After her death in 1743, he married, secondly,
Mary Panton, on 27 November 1750. Mary was the daughter of
Thomas Panton of Newmarket, who was an equerry to King
George II and master of the Thurlow Hunt. They had six children:
* Lady Mary Catherine Bertie (1754–1767), who died young.
* Peregrine Thomas Bertie, Marquess of Lindsey (1755–1758), who died young.
* a son (born and died 14 September 1759), who died young.
*
Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1756–1779), who never married as he died from scarlet fever while engaged to Lady Anna Waldegrave, daughter of
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave.
*
Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1761–1828), who married
Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr, in 1779.
*
Lady Georgina Charlotte Bertie (1761–1838), who married
George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley, and had issue.
Lord Ancaster died on 12 August 1778 and was succeeded in his titles by his only surviving son,
Robert
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. After Robert's death in 1779 without a male heir, Peregrine's younger brother,
Brownlow, succeeded to the dukedom.
[ George Edward Cokayne, ed. Vicary Gibbs, '']The Complete Peerage
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'', volume I (St Catherine Press, London 1910
page 128
File:Mary, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven.jpg, Mary, Duchess of Ancaster and Kesteven, wife of the 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
File:Charles Turner - Portrait of Charlotte Cholmondeley and son Henry.jpg, Lady Cholmondeley and her son William Henry Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley (1805), by Charles Turner
References
1714 births
1778 deaths
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Lord Great Chamberlains
Lord-lieutenants of Lincolnshire
Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain
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