Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet (6 October 1773 – 26 March 1851) of Normanton Park, Rutland, was a British

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. Heathcote was the son of

Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet (died 2 November 1785) of Normanton Park, Rutland was a British Member of Parliament. Heathcote was the son of Sir John Heathcote, 2nd Baronet, and Bridget, daughter of Thomas White and was educated at Quee ...

, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Hudson. He succeeded as fourth Baronet on his father's death in 1785.thepeerage.com Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Bt.
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His principal seat was Normanton Park where he held considerable property, augmented by further large holdings north of the Grimsthorpe Estate in

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, p. 19. In 1795 he was appointed

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and in 1796 he was elected to the

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for

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as a Whig, a seat he held until 1807, before representing

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from 1812 to 1841. Heathcote married firstly Lady Katherine Sophia Manners, eldest daughter of John Manners and Louisa, Countess of Dysart, in 1793. After his first wife's death in 1825 he remarried the same year. Heathcote died in March 1851, aged 77, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son,

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, who in 1856 was elevated to the peerage as

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. Heathcote was for many years a senior steward of

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, which adjoined his home at The Durdans. His horse

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won The Derby in 1838.

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