General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and KestevenPC (1714 – 12 August 1778), styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1715 to 1723 and Marquess of Lindsey from 1735 to 1742, was an English peer.
For some time in the 1750s, he sought to establish a series of mines in the upper Conwy valley in Wales. For this purpose, he engaged the German immigrant, Diederich Wessel Linden as his agent.[2]
He married, firstly, Elizabeth (née Blundell) Nicoll (d. 1743), widow of Charles Gounter Nicoll, on 22 May 1735. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Blundell of Basingstoke, Hampshire, whose mother, Alice Blunden, was the alleged victim of a notorious premature burial.
After her death in 1743, he married, secondly, Mary Panton, on 27 November 1750. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Panton of Newmarket, who was an equerry to King George II and master of the Thurlow Hunt. They had six children:[3]
Lady Mary Catherine Bertie (1754–1767), who died young.[1]
Peregrine Thomas Bertie, Marquess of Lindsey (1755–1758), who died young.[1]
a son (born and died 14 September 1759), who died young.[1]
Lord Ancaster died on 12 August 1778 and was succeeded in his titles by his only surviving son, Robert. After Robert's death in 1779 without a male heir, Peregrine's younger brother, Brownlow, succeeded to the dukedom.[4]
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