128 COMPLETE PEERAGE ancaster [Robert Bertie, styled L.okd Willoughby, s. and h. ap. to his father when Earl of Lindsey, by his ist wife ; i>. 6 Feb. 1683/4 ; d. v.p., unm., and under age, about 4 May 1704, at Wolfenbattel, in the Duchy of Brunswick. Admon. 3 July 1704.] II. 1723. 2. Peregrine (Bertie), Duke of Ancaster, fffc, 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h., by ist wife, b. 29 Apr. 1686. Vice Chamberlain to Queen Anne, 14 Apr. 1702. Cr. D.C.L. at Oxford, 27 Aug. 1702. M.P. for CO. Lincoln, 1708-15. P.C. 25 Nov. 1708, and 3 Jan. 1723/4-42. Was sum., v.p., 16 Mar. 17 14/5, to the House of Lords, in his father's Barony, as LORD WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY. A Lord of the Bedchamber 1719-27 ; Lord Lieut, of co. Lincoln, 3 Feb. 1723/4. He officiated as Lord Great Chamberlain at the Coronation of George II. Lord Warden and Justice in Eyre North of Trent, 21 June 1734-42. Hew., June 171 1, Jane, 3rd da. and coh. of Sir John Brownlow, of Great Humby, co. Lincoln, 3rd Bart., by Alice, da. of Richard Sherard, of Lobthorpe, in that co. She d. at Grimsthorpe, afsd., 26 Aug., and was bur. 18 Sep. 1736, at Edenham. He d. i, and was bur. 13 Jan. 1 741/2, at Edenham. M.I. Will pr. May and Nov. 1742. III. 1742. 3. Peregrine (Bertie), Duke of Ancaster, ^c, s. and h., b. 17 14. P.C. and Lord Lieut, of co. Lincoln, 20 Feb. 1 741/2-78. Being attached to the House of Hanover, he raised a regiment for the de facto King in 1745. Lord of the Bedchamber 1755-65. Major Gen., 19 Mar. 1755. Lieut. Gen., 3 Feb. 1759. General, 25 May 1772. At the coronation, 22 Sep. 1761, he officiated as Lord Great Chamberlain, and from 13 Dec. 1766 to 1778 was Master of the Horse. (°) He m., istly, 22 May 1735, Elizabeth, (with ;^ 70,000) widow of Sir Charles Gunter Nicoll, K.B., da. and sole h. of William Blundell, of Basingstoke, Hants. She d., s.p., 17 Dec. 1743. Admon. 4 Apr. 1745 to her husband. He m., 2ndly, 27 Nov. 1750, at Newmarket, co. Cambridge, Mary, C") da. of Thomas Panto n, of Newmarket afsd.. Master of the King's running horses, by Priscilla, his wife. He d. at Grimsthorpe, "of a bilious disorder, " in his 65th year, 12, and was bur. 27 Aug. 1778, at Edenham. M.I. Will pr. Aug. 1778. His widow, who was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Charlotte, 1761-93, d. at Naples, 19 Oct. 1793. Will pr. Jan. 1794. [Peregrine Thomas Bertie, styled Marquess of Lindsey, s. and h. (*) " The Duke of Ancaster indeed was mentioned [for the L. Lieutenancy of Ireland in succession to Earl Harcourt], but ' Good God,' said Lord North, ' it is impossible to send into such a responsible station, such a very egregious blockhead, who is besides both mulish and intractable. " (Sir John de Blaquiere, 18 Nov. 1776. Harcourt Papers, vol. x, p. 2o6.) V.G. C") She brought him a fortune of ^{^60,000. Horace Walpole, in a letter to Mann, 9 July 1779, describes her as "natural daughter of Panton, a disreputable horse jockey. " Walpole's statement that she was natural da. is untrue, and his error doubtless arose from the fact that, when he wrote, Panton, whose wife had d. in July 1778, was living with a mistress, one Sarah Tuting. V.G.
