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Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

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The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Reign1778–1779
PredecessorPeregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
SuccessorBrownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Born17 October 1756
Grimsthorpe
Died8 July 1779(1779-07-08) (aged 22)
Grimsthorpe
Cause of deathScarlet fever
Buried22 July 1779
Edenham
Noble familyBertie
IssueSusan
FatherPeregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
MotherMary Panton
Funerary monument with his father the 3rd Duke

Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, PC (17 October 1756  – 8 July 1779), styled Lord Robert Bertie until 1758 and Marquess of Lindsey between 1758 and 1778, was a British peer.

Early life

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He was born in Grimsthorpe, the second son of the General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (died 1778), and Mary Panton (died 1793)

On the death of his elder brother, Peregrine Thomas Bertie, Marquess of Lindsey, on 12 December 1758, he inherited the courtesy title of Marquess of Lindsey. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.[1]

Career

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About 1777, he served as a volunteer in North America. A lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of Foot, on 20 January 1778, he was promoted to a captaincy in the 15th Regiment of Foot.[2]

On his father's death on 12 August 1778, he succeeded as 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, 4th Marquess of Lindsey, 7th Earl of Lindsey, 20th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain. He was the last to hold the Lord Great Chamberlainship as an undivided office. On 12 February 1779 he was invested as Privy Counsellor and was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.

Personal life

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He never married and died in Grimsthorpe on 8 July 1779 from scarlet fever. At the time of his death he was engaged to Lady Anna Waldegrave, daughter of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, and Maria Walpole, the illegitimate granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister. Lady Waldegrave, after her husband's death, married in secret Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, a younger brother of King George III, a marriage which outraged the King and led to the passing of the Royal Marriages Act 1772. After his death, his fiancée married Lord Hugh Seymour. He was buried on 22 July 1779 in Edenham.

On his death, the Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlainship and the Barony Willoughby de Eresby fell into abeyance between his two sisters, all other titles of his passed to his uncle. An illegitimate daughter of the 4th duke, Susan, was married to Banastre Tarleton; but there were no children.

References

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  1. ^ "Lindsey, Robert (LNDY772RB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "No. 11841". The London Gazette. 17 January 1778. p. 2.
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Great Chamberlain
1778–1779
Abeyant
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
1779
Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
1778–1779
Succeeded by
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Willoughby de Eresby
1778–1779
Abeyant
(abeyance terminated in 1780
for Priscilla Bertie
)