Peter Robert Drummond-Burrell, 2nd Baron Gwydyr, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
PC (19 March 1782 – 22 February 1865), was a British politician and nobleman.
Early life
Born Peter Robert Burrell, he was the eldest of three sons born to
Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr (1754–1820), and
Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1761–1828). His paternal grandfather was
Peter Burrell, a Member of Parliament and
Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, and his maternal grandfather was
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 ...
. His mother succeeded to a large part of the Ancaster estates in 1779, to the barony of Willoughby of Eresby in 1780 and to the hereditary office of Lord Great Chamberlain.
Career
He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating M.A. 1801. From 1812 until 1820, he was
Member of Parliament for
Boston
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in
Lincolnshire
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. Up to the 1832
Reform Act
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Drummond-Burrell was a
Whig, but by 1841 had changed his allegiance to the
Tories.
On 29 June 1820, he succeeded his father as 2nd
Baron Gwydyr, 3rd Baronet Burell of Knipp and Deputy
Lord Great Chamberlain
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. On 29 December 1828, he succeeded his mother as 22nd
Baron Willoughby de Eresby and joint (1/2) hereditary
Lord Great Chamberlain
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.
As hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain, he played a leading role at the
coronation of Queen Victoria
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in 1838, holding the crown.
Personal life
On 19 October 1807, he married Sarah Clementina Drummond (1786–1865), daughter of
James Drummond, 11th Earl of Perth, and Clementina Elphinstone (a daughter of
Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone). Together, they were the parents of five children:
*
Clementina Elizabeth Drummond-Willoughby, 24th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1809–1882). who married
Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 1st
Baron Aveland.
* Elizabeth Susan Drummond-Burrell (1810–1853), who died unmarried.
* Charlotte Augusta Annabella Drummond-Willoughby (1815–1879), who married the
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington.
* Frederick Drummond-Burrell (1818–1819), who died in infancy.
*
Albyric Drummond-Willoughby, 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1821–1870), who never married.
His wife died on 26 January 1865. He died less than a month later, on 22 February 1865. They are buried side by side in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels,
Edenham, Lincolnshire. The canopied tomb of their second daughter, Elizabeth Susan (d. 1853) is adjacent, and those of their son Albyric (d. 1870) and grandson
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster (d. 1910), are nearby. All five tombs are Grade II listed, some jointly.
Legacy
Gwydyr Mansions in
Hove
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Originally a fishing village surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th century in respon ...
, East Sussex, were named after him in honour of his friendship with the
Goldsmid family
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, upon whose land the development was built in 1890.
The
Gwydir River in
New South Wales
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was named for him by the explorer
Allan Cunningham, for whom he was a
patron
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.
References
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1782 births
1865 deaths
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