Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Who was Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven?

Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster, styled Lord Brownlow Bertie until 1779, was a British peer. He was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Jane Brownlow, and the younger brother of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and uncle of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. He was baptized in London in the Church of St Giles in the Fields, Holborn.

Bertie was Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire from 1761 to 1779, became Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire on 12 February 1779, and was invested as Privy Counsellor on the same day. On his nephew's death on 8 July 1779, he succeeded him as 5th and last Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Marquess of Lindsey and as 8th Earl of Lindsey.

Ancaster married twice. His first wife, whom he married on 11 November 1762 in Cork Street in London, was Harriot Pitt. His second wife, whom he married on 2 January 1769 in St James's, was Mary Anne Layard.

His first marriage remained childless, while with his second wife he had one daughter: