Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon
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Born | Montagu Arthur Bertie 13 May 1836 Hanover Square, Mayfair, England |
Died | 10 March 1928 Oaken Holt, Oxfordshire, England | (aged 91)
Education | Eton College |
Spouses | Caroline Theresa Towneley
(m. 1858; died 1873)Gwendoline Mary Dormer
(after 1883) |
Children | 8 |
Parent(s) | Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon Elizabeth Lavinia Vernon-Harcourt |
Relatives | Francis Bertie, 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame (brother) |
Montagu Arthur Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon peer.
Early life
Montagu Arthur Bertie was born on 13 May 1836 at
His maternal grandparents were
Lord Norreys attended Eton College in Windsor.[4]
Career
Bertie served as High Steward of Abingdon and the Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire. His father had served as Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1854 until 1881 and his grandfather before him from 1826 until 1854. Upon his father's death in 1884, he succeeded to the peerage as the 7th Earl of Abingdon and the 11th Lord Norris.
As Lord Norreys, he entered the
Following the death of his first wife's brother-in-law, Thomas O'Hagan in 1885, he inherited the Towneley family trustee position at the British Museum.[7]
Personal life
On 10 July 1858, he married Caroline Theresa
- Lady Mary Caroline Bertie (1859–1938), who married Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) on 5 August 1879.
- Capt. Montagu Charles Francis Bertie, Lord Norreys (1860–1919), who predeceased his father.
- Lady Alice Josephine Bertie (1865–1950), who married Sir Gerald Portal on 1 February 1890. After his death, she married Maj. Robert Reyntiens on 5 October 1897.
- Lady Cecil Josephine Bertie (1873–1895), who married Brig-Gen. Paul Aloysius Kenna on 18 July 1895.
After the death of his first wife in 1873, he remarried to Gwendoline Mary Dormer (1865–1942) on 16 October 1883. Gwendoline was the daughter of James Charlemagne Dormer, a British Army officer who was only two years Bertie's senior. Together, they were the parents of four more children:[3]
- Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary "Goonie" Bertie (1885–1941),Jennie Jerome, and brother of Winston Churchill.[10]
- Maj. Hon. Arthur Michael Cosmo Bertie (1886–1957), who married Aline Rose Ramsay, daughter of George Arbuthnot-Leslie, on 15 May 1929. After her death, he married Lilian Isabel Crackanthorpe, daughter of Charles Edward Cary-Elwes, on 7 May 1949.
- Lt-Cdr. Hon. James Willoughby Bertie (1901–1966), who married Lady Jean Crichton-Stuart, daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, on 12 June 1928.
- Lady Elizabeth Constance Mary Bertie (1895–1987), married first Major Sigismund Trafford on 21 April 1914. After his death, she married Col. Henry Cartwright on 5 September 1956.
In 1911, he broke up and sold the family estates at Albury and Great Haseley.[11]
The Earl of Abingdon died on 10 March 1928, aged 91, at Oaken Holt in Oxfordshire, in South East England. He was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Abingdon. His widow lived to age 77 and died on 16 September 1942.
Descendants
From his first marriage, and through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather to
Reyntiens had two sons from her first marriage to Alexander Koch de Gooreynd, Simon Towneley and Peregrine Worsthorne.[13]
From his second marriage, and through his daughter Lady Gwendoline Bertie, he was the grandfather of the artist John Spencer-Churchill and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, who married Anthony Eden, the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s. Through his son Hon. Arthur Bertie, he was the grandfather of Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey. Through his youngest son, The Hon. James Bertie, he was the grandfather of Andrew Bertie, 78th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Through his youngest child, daughter Lady Elizabeth Bertie, he was the grandfather of Sophie de Trafford, who married Charles Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell and great-grandfather of Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell.
References
- ^ Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, A. Sutton, Gloucester, 1982, volume I, p. 49.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. Jack. p. 93.
- ^ ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ISBN 9780333399170.
- ^ Thoyts, Emma Elizabeth (1897). History of the Royal Berkshire Militia: (now 3rd Battalion Royal Berks Regiment). Thoyts. p. 249.
- ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
- ^ Trustees of the Museum (10 December 1898). Statutes and Rules for the British Museum. London: Woodfall and Kinder. p. 31 – via Internet Archive (Biodiversity Heritage Library).
- ^ Skeet, Francis John Angus (1906). History of the Families of Skeet, Somerscales, Widdrington, Wilby, Murray, Blake, Grimshaw, and Others. M. Hughes and Clarke. p. 112.
- ^ Hugo Vickers. "Obituary: John Spencer Churchill". The Independent. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ISBN 9780230104921.
- ^ Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1957). "Parishes: Albury (with Tiddington)". A History of the County of Oxford. Vol. 5, Bullingdon Hundred. London: Victoria County History. pp. 8–14.
- ^ "THE EARL OF ABINGDON'S MARRIAGE". The Guardian. 10 August 1928. p. 8.
- ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1. Retrieved 2 March 2023.