Henry Bertie (MP for Beaumaris)

Henry Bertie (4 May 1675 – 18 December 1735) was an English colonialist and politician.^[1]

Biography

He was the third son of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon and his wife Eleanora Lee, the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Bt., of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire.

Bertie was one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, heir of the proprietorship granted to Sir William Berkeley. He sat as Member of Parliament for Beaumaris, a pocket borough in Wales, until he was unseated in 1727 by Watkin Williams-Wynn.

Family

Bertie first married Arabella Susanna Hamilton (d. 10 December 1708), daughter of Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly, on 17 July 1708, but she died later that year. He later married his half-first cousin Mary Bertie, daughter of Peregrine Bertie of Waldershare and granddaughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey. By her he had one daughter, Susanna Bertie, who married her cousin Charles Bertie, rector of St. Mary le Strand, son of Charles Bertie.

References

• Bertie genealogy, archived from the original on 14 August 2007, retrieved 5 September 2007 

Further reading

• Thomas, Peter D.G. (1970), "Bertie, Hon. Henry (1675-1735).", in Sedgwick, R., The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, Boydell and Brewer