Henry Bertie (of Weston-on-the-Green)

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Henry Bertie,

English and British House of Commons
between 1678 and 1715.

Early life

Bertie was a younger son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey by his second wife, Lady Norreys, daughter of Edward Wray, of Rycote, Oxfordshire and widow of Hon. Edward Sackville.[1] His mother, who died shortly after his birth, seems to have let him enough of an inheritance to be comfortably provided for, including the manor of Nutley in Long Crendon.[2]

Bertie was one of the commissioners of assessment for Oxfordshire from 1677 to 1680. When

Edward Norton at Westbury in the general election of October 1679. He was not appointed to any committees in the subsequent Exclusion Bill Parliament; during 1680, he was taken off both commissions of assessment, although he was made a deputy lieutenant of Oxfordshire,[1] and in November, an election petition by Trenchard and Norton was accepted by Parliament. Bertie and Lewis were turned out and the returning officer, the mayor of Westbury, was confined for two weeks for "great misdemeanours" in making the return.[3]

At the 1681 election, he stood instead as an uncontested court candidate for Woodstock, where his brother had built up an interest through the Norreys estates and his office as Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. No Parliamentary activity by Henry can be traced in the Third Exclusion Bill Parliament. Henry and Norreys were both admitted as freemen of Oxford on 14 June 1681;[4] later that year, Henry served on the foreman of the grand jury of Oxfordshire during Norreys' successful proceedings against Stephen College on the court's behalf. He was commissioned a captain of Oxfordshire militia horse before 1681, and after the discovery of the Rye House Plot in 1683, he was employed in searching for arms secreted by the conspirators.[1]

In March 1685, Bertie was returned as Member of Parliament for Oxford on the interest of his brother, now Lord Abingdon. All the candidates were Tories; one of the sitting members, Whigs, had died and the other retired from politics. Bertie topped the poll with 657 votes, the recorder of the borough, Sir George Pudsey received 611, while Sir Edward Norreys, who had represented the county and whose daughter Bertie would soon marry, polled only 53.[5] Abingdon celebrated the event with a splendid celebration for the members of the corporation at his seat in Rycote, from which most returned "drunk and fell off their horses", according to Anthony Wood.[6] He showed more activity in this Parliament, serving on the elections committee and the committee for taking accounts of the commissioners for disbanding the army.[1]

Monmouth Rebellion and disaffection

After the outbreak of the

Roman Catholic officers.[10] Sometime after 1685, he was appointed a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire.[1][11] Like his brothers, Bertie belonged to the High Tories who were alienated from the court by the pro-Catholic policies of King James. In 1687, he lost his militia commission, his deputy lieutenancy, and was removed from the commission of the peace in Oxfordshire.[12]

In February 1688, Bertie was removed from the Buckinghamshire bench as well. He was admitted a freeman of Devizes in March, but was removed from the Oxford corporation in June when it was purged and remodelled.[1][5] In September 1688, his nephew Lord Norreys treated some of the country gentlemen of Oxfordshire to solicit support for Henry in the anticipated elections.[13] He was reinstated at Oxford in October when the King began to reverse the program of remodelling the corporations.[1]

By this time, the

Sir Ralph Dutton in rescuing Lord Lovelace from jail in Gloucester; Lovelace, a zealous Whig and political rival of the Berties before the Revolution, had been captured at Cirencester trying to break through a force loyal to James.[15] Bertie returned to Oxford on 5 December with the troops under Lord Lovelace, who came to hold Oxford for the Prince.[16] He and Norreys were returned for Oxford in the abortive December elections.[1]

Under King William in 1689, Bertie was restored as a deputy lieutenant of Oxfordshire, which he held until 1701, to the commission of the peace and as a militia captain there, and as a commissioner for the assessment of both Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He and Norreys were returned again for Oxford to the

serjeant-at-arms until Speaker Trevor extracted pledges from them not to renew the quarrel.[1]

Family

Before May 1687, Bertie married Philadelphia Norreys (died before 1715), daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Norreys of Weston-on-the-Green. They had five children:[17]

  • James Bertie (died 7 May 1728), married Elizabeth Harris (d. 1720) and had a son, Norreys Bertie, and a daughter, Philadelphia (d. 1720)
  • Rev. Charles Montagu Bertie (died 17 October 1744), rector of Uffington, died unmarried
  • Eleanora Bertie, died unmarried
  • Anne Bertie, died unmarried
  • Catherine Bertie, married Francis Carr Clerke

After Philadelphia's death, Bertie married Catherine Fetherston (died 8 February 1736), daughter of Sir Heneage Fetherston, 1st Baronet, but had no children by her. His brother-in-law James Norreys died in 1718 and left the Norreys estates to Bertie's eldest son James.[17]

Bertie died at Chesterton, Oxfordshire in 1734.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Watson, Paula (1983). "BERTIE, Hon. Henry (c.1656-1734), of Chesterton, Oxon.". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust.
  2. ^ Page, William, ed. (1927). "Parishes: Long Crendon". A History of the County of Buckingham. Vol. 4. London: Victoria County History. pp. 36–45. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b c Henning, Basil Duke (1983). "Westbury". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust.
  4. ^ "No. 1626". The London Gazette. 16 June 1681. p. 2.
  5. ^ a b Naylor, Leonard; Jaggar, Geoffrey (1983). "Oxford". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust.
  6. ^ Clark 1894, p. 135.
  7. ^ a b Dalton, Charles, ed. (1894). English Army lists and commission registers. Vol. II 1685–1689. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 14.
  8. ^ Clark 1894, p. 145.
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  10. ^ Clark 1894, p. 171.
  11. Duckett, George Floyd (1883). The Penal Laws and Test Act. T. Wilson. pp. 141
    . Retrieved 6 September 2007.
  12. ^ Watson, Paula; Gauci, Perry (2002). "BERTIE, Hon. Henry I (c.1656-1734), of Chesterton, Oxon.". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
  13. ^ Clark 1894, p. 269.
  14. ^ Clark 1894, p. 283–284.
  15. ^ Eagles, Robin. "'A man subject to vapours': James Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, and his brothers c.1670-1699" (PDF). Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  16. ^ Clark 1894, p. 286.
  17. ^ a b Collins, Arthur (1812). Peerage of England. F. C. and J. Rivington. p. 629. Retrieved 6 September 2007.

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