Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon

The Earl of Abingdon.

Montagu Arthur Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon (13 May 1836 – 10 March 1928)^[1] was an English peer.

Background

He was the fifth child of Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon and Elizabeth Lavinia Vernon-Harcourt. In 1911, he broke up and sold the family estates at Albury and Great Haseley.^[2]

Family

On 10 July 1858 he married Caroline Theresa Towneley (d. 4 September 1873). They lived at Wytham Abbey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) had three children together:^[3]

• Lady Mary Caroline Bertie (11 August 1859 – 21 April 1938), married Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent on 5 August 1879 and had issue;
• Capt. Montagu Charles Francis (Towneley-)Bertie, Lord Norreys (3 October 1860 – 24 September 1919), married and had issue, including Montagu Towneley-Bertie, who succeeded his grandfather;
• Lady Alice Josephine Bertie (2 March 1865 – 7 May 1950), married first, on 1 February 1890, Sir Gerald Portal, without issue, and second, on 5 October 1897, Maj. Robert Reyntiens (d. 13 October 1913) and had issue, including Priscilla Reyntiens;
• Lady Cecil Josephine Bertie (22 July 1873 – 3 October 1895, married on 18 July 1895 Brig-Gen. Paul Aloysius Kenna, without issue;

On 16 October 1883 he married Gwendoline Mary Dormer, daughter of James Charlemagne Dormer. They had four children:^[3]

• Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie (1885–1941). Known as "Goonie".^[4] Married John, son of Conservative politician Lord Randolph Churchill and the American heiress Jennie Jerome, and brother of Winston Churchill. She was the mother of Clarissa (b. 1920), who married Anthony Eden, Conservative Prime Minister in the mid-1950s; she also was the mother of the artist John;
• Maj. Hon. Arthur Michael Cosmo Bertie (29 September 1886 – 2 February 1957), married first, on 15 May 1929, Aline Rose Ramsay, daughter of George Arbuthnot-Leslie, and had issue, including Richard Bertie, 14th Earl of Lindsey, and married second, on 7 May 1949, Lilian Isabel Crackanthorpe, daughter of Charles Edward Cary-Elwes, without issue;
• Lt-Cdr. Hon. James Willoughby Bertie (22 September 1901 – 11 May 1966), married, on 12 June 1928, Lady Jean Crichton-Stuart, daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, and had issue, including Andrew Bertie, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta;
• Lady Elizabeth Constance Mary Bertie (12 March 1895 – 1987), married first Major Sigismund Trafford, on 21 April 1914, and had issue including Sophie de Trafford (d. 2012) widow of the 2nd Baron Lyell VC and mother of the unmarried 3rd Baron. She married second Col. Henry Cartwright, on 5 September 1956, without issue.

References

1. 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.
2. Lobel, Mary D, ed. (1957). "Parishes: Albury (with Tiddington)". A History of the County of Oxford. Volume 5, Bullingdon Hundred. London: Victoria County History. pp. 8–14.
3. Darryl Lundy. "thepeerage.com". Retrieved 2010-07-25.
4. Hugo Vickers. "Obituary: John Spencer Churchill". Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-08-21.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by The Earl of Abingdon
• Portraits of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon at the National Portrait Gallery, London