ANCASTER COMPLETE PEERAGE 129 ap., by 2nd wife, b. 21 May 1755, in Berkeley Sq., Midx., d. 12 Dec. 1758, and was bur. at Edenham.] IV. 1778. 4. Robert (Bertie), Duke of Ancaster, i^sfc., 2nd, but only surv. s. and h., by 2nd wife, b. 17 Oct. 1756, at Grimsthorpe. In his 2ist year he served as a volunteer in North America. P.C. and Lord Lieut, of co. Lincoln, 12 Feb. 1779. He d. unm., in his 23rd year, of scarlet fever, at Grimsthorpe, 8, and was bur. 22 July 1779, at Edenham. (") M.L Will pr. July 1779. (") On his death the hereditary office of Lord Great Chamberlain, as well as the Barony of WiLLOUGHBY DE Eresby (being a Barony in fee),y^// into abeyance between his two sisters, till, on 1 8 Mar. 1 780, the abeyance of the Barony was terminated in favour of Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth, the eldest coh. (") See " Will- OUGHBY DE Eresby. " His Other Peerage honours devolved as under. V. 1779 5. Brownlow (Bertie), Duke of Ancaster and to Kesteven, Marquess of Lindsey and Earl of Lindsey, 1809. uncle and h. male, b. i May 1729, at Lindsey House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and bap. at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, Midx. M.P. for CO. Lincoln, 1761-79. P.C, and Lord Lieut, of co. Lincoln, 12 Feb. 1779. He w., istly, 11 Nov. 1762, at the house of Gen. Durand in Cork Str., St. James's, Westm., Harriot, only da. and h. of George Morton Pitt, of Twickenham, Midx., Governor of Fort St. George, India, by Sophia, sometime wife of George Drake, da. of ( — ) BuGDEN. She, who was bap. 22 June 1745, at Twickenham, d. s.p., Apr., and was bur. 6 May 1763, at Edenham. Admon. 21 May 1765. He m., 2ndly, 2 Jan. 1769, at St. James's, Westm., Mary Anne, yst. da. of Peter Layard, of Sutton Friars in Canterbury, Major in the army, by Mary Anne, da. and, eventually, coh. of James Croze, a Captain in the Dutch navy. She, who was b. 5 Mar. 1 743, at Sutton Friars afsd., d. 13 Jan. 1804, in Saville Row, Midx. He d. s.p.m., in his 80th year, at Grimsthorpe, 8, and was bur. 17 Feb. 1809, at Swinestead. Will pr. Mar. 1809. On his death (the issue male of the first Duke and of his brothers, who were included in the spec, rem., having failed) the Dukedom of Ancaster and Kesteven and the Marquessatk of Lindsey became extinct, while the Earldom of Lindsey devolved on his distant cousin and h. male, a descendant of the 2nd Earl. See " Lindsey, " Earldom of, cr. 1626, under the 9th Earl. (*) He was addicted to rioting and drunkenness. In 1779, he and some woman of the town appear as " The Favourite of the Fair and the captivating Lais " [Miss St...y] in the tete a tete portraits in Town <ff Country Mag., vol. xi, p. 233. See N. & Q., loth Series, vol. iv, p. 462. (*") " I hear he has left a legacy to a very small man that was always his com- panion, and whom, when he was drunk, he used to fling at the heads of the company, as others fling a bottle. " (H. Walpole, Letters, 4 July 1779). V.G. {") This Lady inherited Grimsthorpe Castle and most of the Lincolnshire estates. 18
