Jump to content

Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
Lady Willoughby de Eresby by Sampson Towgood Roch, after a miniature by Saunders c. 1810
Personal details
Born
Lady Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie

16 February 1761
Died29 December 1828(1828-12-29) (aged 67)
Spouse
(m. 1779; died 1820)
Children
Parents
Arms of Baroness Willoughby de Eresby

Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (16 February 1761 – 29 December 1828), known before 1780 as Lady Priscilla Bertie, was a daughter of the Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and Mary Panton. Through her grandmother Mary Wynn, Priscilla Bertie was a descendant of the Welsh princely House of Aberffraw.

On 23 February 1779, she married Sir Peter Burrell (later 1st Baron Gwydyr) and they later had four children.

Barony of Willoughby de Eresby

[edit]

On 8 July 1779, her brother, Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, died of scarlet fever at the age of 22 and his dukedom passed to his uncle, but his barony of Willoughby de Eresby, as well as the office of Lord Great Chamberlain, went into abeyance between Priscilla and her sister, Lady Georgiana (later Marchioness of Cholmondeley). On 17 March 1780, however, the abeyance of the barony was terminated in Priscilla's favour, as the elder sister. The office of Lord Great Chamberlain remains divided.

Marriage and children

[edit]
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Robert Bertie
(abeyant in 1779)
Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
(abeyance terminated)

1780–1828
Succeeded by