Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Who was Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven?

Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven PC, styled The Honourable Peregrine Bertie between 1686 and 1701, Lord Willoughby de Eresby between 1701 and 1715 and Marquess of Lindsey between 1715 and 1723, was a British nobleman and statesman.

Bertie, who matriculated at Oxford in the late 17th century, graduated from that university in 1702. In 1708, he entered Parliament as MP for Lincolnshire, and was invested a Privy Counsellor that same year. He would serve in the House of Commons until he was summoned to the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration in his father's Barony of Willoughby de Eresby in 1715.

In June 1711, he married Jane Brownlow, daughter of Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet, by whom he had seven children:

Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Lord Albemarle Bertie, blinded early in his youth, a gambler and sportsman depicted by Hogarth

Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Lady Mary Bertie, married on 21 February 1748 Samuel Greatheed

Lady Albinia Bertie, married in 1744 Francis Beckford, no issue

Lady Jane Bertie, married on 31 March 1743 General Edward Mathew and had issue