Name Willoughby 3rd Parents James Bertie | Died June 10, 1760 | |
Children Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon Grandchildren Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon Grandparents James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon Uncles Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon | ||
Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon (28 November 1692 – 10 June 1760) was an English peer.
He was the son of James Bertie of Stanwell in Middlesex and Elizabeth Willoughby, and nephew of Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon. He matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on 27 November 1707.
The Berties were Tories, with a strong electoral interest in Westbury, where the Earls of Abingdon were lords of the manor. At the 1715 general election in January, a double return was made for the seat, with the mayor of Westbury returning two Tories, Bertie and Francis Annesley, and the constable returning two Whigs, George Evans and Charles Allanson, who had been sponsored by Lord Cowper to challenge the Bertie interest. The return for Bertie and Annesley was initially accepted on 28 March 1715 and they were declared elected, but on petition, a number of their voters were disenfranchised, and Evans (who had since been created Baron Carbery) and Allanson were declared elected on 1 June. At the 1722 election, Bertie's father James was returned with Annesley; Willoughby did not stand for Parliament again.
He married Anna Maria Collins in August 1727 in Florence. They had nine children:
- Lady Elizabeth Peregrine Bertie (1728–1804), married Sir John Gallini
- Lady Jane Bertie (c.1730 – 25 February 1791), married Thomas Clifton of Westby, Clifton and Lytham
- Lady Bridget Bertie (1732 – 9 December 1760), unmarried
- James Bertie, Lord Norreys (25 September 1735 – 12 October 1745)
- Lady Anne Eleanora Bertie (c.1737 – 19 April 1804), married Philip Wenman, 7th Viscount Wenman
- Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon (1739/40–1799)
- Hon. Peregrine Bertie (of Weston-on-the-Green) (1741–1790)
- Lady Mary Bertie (12 November 1746 – 22 July 1826), married Miles Stapleton (d. 1809)
- Lady Sophia Bertie (6 November 1748 – 1760), unmarried
Willoughby succeeded his uncle as Earl of Abingdon in 1743. He remained a staunch Tory, as he declined to join the Oxfordshire association in defence of the Hanoverian succession during the Jacobite rising of 1745.