Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster PC (1 May 1729 – 8 February 1809), styled Lord Brownlow Bertie until 1779, was a British peer and politician who sat in the

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from 1761 to 1779 when he succeeded to a

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Early life

Bertie was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Jane Brownlow, and the younger brother of

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 an English peer. Early life Bertie was born in 1714 and, begi ...

, and uncle of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. He was baptized in

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in the Church of St Giles in the Fields,

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Career

Bertie was Member of Parliament for

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from 1761 to 1779, became

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on 12 February 1779, and was invested as

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on the same day. On his nephew's death on 8 July 1779, he succeeded him as 5th and last

Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven Earl of Lindsey is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1626 for the 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1635 to 1636 and also established his claim in right of his mother to the heredita ...

and Marquess of Lindsey and as 8th

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Personal life

Ancaster married twice. His first wife, whom he married on 11 November 1762 at the house of General Durand in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, London, was Harriot Pitt (1745–1763), the only daughter and heiress of George Morton Pitt.''The Register of Marriages solemnized in the Parish Church of St James within the Liberty of Westminster & County of Middlesex. 1754-1765.'' No. 2803. 11 November 1762. After the death of his first wife on 23 April 1763, he remarried to Mary Anne Layard (1733–1804), a daughter of Maj Peter Layard of Sutton Friars, on 2 January 1769 in

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. His first marriage was childless, while with his second wife he had one daughter: * Lady Mary Elizabeth Bertie (1771–1797), married to Thomas Charles Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore (1772–1835) on 26 May 1793; her son Brownlow-Charles Colyear inherited much property from his ducal grandfather but died in 1819 before he could inherit his father's titles. The dukedom and the marquessate became extinct on his own death, while the earldom passed to his kinsman Albemarle Bertie. The Duke of Ancaster's funeral took place on 17 February 1809 at St Mary's Church in

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, Lincolnshire.

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1729 births 1809 deaths Lord-lieutenants of Lincolnshire Bertie, Brownlow Brownlow British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780