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 48 COMPLETE PEERAGE abingdon High Steward of Abingdon and Wallingford Nov. 1743. He »?., Aug. 1727, at Florence, Anna Maria, da. of Sir John Collins (") _query^ of Chute Lodge, Hants .']. He d. 10 June 1760, and was bur. at Rycote Chapel. Will dat. 3 Dec. 1756, pr. 9 July 1760. His widow d. suddenly, 21 Dec. 1763, while visiting the Venetian Ambassador at Powis House. Will pr. Mar. 1764. [James Bertie, styled Lord Norreys, s. and h. ap., bap. 25 Sep. 1735, at Gainsborough. He d. unm., v.p., 12 Oct. 1745, being burnt in his bed, at Rycote, and was bur. there.] IV. 1760. 4. WiLLOUGHBY (BeRTIe), EaRL OF AbINGDON, 6fc., 2nd, but I St surv. s. and h., b. 16 Jan. and bap. 18 Feb. 1739/40, at Gainsborough. Ed. at Westm., and at Geneva. On 3 July 1759, being then a student at Oxford (Magd. Coll.), he was one of the three undergraduates chosen to address the Chancellor on his installation. M.A. 1 761. Took his seat in the House of Lords 6 Feb. 1761. High Steward of Abingdon and Wallingford 1761. (") He »?., 7 July 1768, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Charlotte, yst. of the 3 surv. daughters and coheirs of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, of Warrenstown, in Ireland, K.B., by Susanna, da. of Stephen De Lancy, and Ann, formerly Ann van Cortlandt, spinster. She ^., of " a complaint in the stomach," at Rycote, 28 Jan., and was bur. 8 Feb. 1794, at Rycote Chapel. He d. 26 Sep. 1799, aged 60, and was bur. there. Will pr. May 1 800. [WiLLOUGHBY Bertie, Styled Lord Norreys, s. and h. ap., b. 8 Feb. and d. 20 Feb. 1779, aged twelve days.] [WiLLOUGHBY Bertie, stykd LoRD NoRREYS, 2nd s. and h. ap., b. 9 Apr. 178 1, d. v.p.y an infant.] V. 1799. 5- Montagu (Bertie), Earl of Abingdon, £ifc., 3rd, but 1st surv. s. and h., b. 30 Apr. 1784, and bap. at St. Geo., Han. Sq. ; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 3 July 18 10. He was Cup- bearer at the coronation of George IV, 19 July 1821 ; High Steward of C) " A gentleman of Scottish extraction." Collins. C") He was sentenced in the King's Bench to some months' imprisonment for libelling an attorney named Sermon. " A singular young man, not quite devoid of parts, but rough and wrong-headed, extremely underbred but warmly honest." (Hot. Walpole, Journal, Sep. 1777.) Lord Charlemont, in his Memoirs, describes him as " a man of genius, but eccentric and irregular almost to madness : " which account tallies with the view generally taken of his character. His talent for " Flute playing " is mentioned in the characters of Men of Fashion in 1782, (see Appendix H at the end of this volume) and again as under in a ballad describing the carousal " following the Cape Hunt" (pub. in The IViccamical Chaplet, by G. Huddesford, 1804) where his brother Capt. Peregrine Bertie '■'■full brother to a peer " had distinguished himself. " When tidings to Lord Abingdon were wrote with pen and ink. That Peregrine of Gattendon was overcome with drink. His Lordship strummed his fiddlestring as he sung with merry glee, Huzza ! of Fiddlers I'm the King ; the King of Fuddlers he. "