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ANCASTER AND KESTEVEN, DUKE OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 945 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANCASTER AND KESTEVEN, See also:

DUKE OF , an See also:English See also:title See also:borne by the well-known See also:Lincolnshire See also:family of Bertie from I715 tO 1809. See also:ROBERT BERTIE (1660-1723), son and See also:heir of Robert, third See also:earl of See also:Lindsey (d. 1701), who succeeded his See also:father as See also:lord See also:great See also:chamberlain of See also:England, was created See also:marquess of Lindsey in 1706, being made duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in See also:July 1715. His eldest surviving son, PEREGRINE (1686-1742), who had been a member of See also:parliament for Lincolnshire from 1708 to 1714, succeeded to the dukedom and also to the lord-lieutenancy of Lincolnshire, which had been held by his father. His son and successor, PEREGRINE (1714-1778), who was also lord great chamberlain and lord-See also:lieutenant of Lincolnshire, attained the See also:rank of See also:general in the See also:British See also:army. The See also:fourth duke was ROBERT (1756-1779), son of the third duke, who died in July 1779, when his See also:barony of See also:Willoughby de Eresby and the hereditary See also:office of lord great chamberlain See also:fell into See also:abeyance until 1780. The dukedom, however, and other honours came to his See also:uncle BROWNLOW (1729-1809), on whose See also:death in See also:February 18o9 the dukedom of Ancaster and Kesteven became See also:extinct; but the earldom of Lindsey descended to a distant kinsman, See also:Albemarle Bertie (1744-1818). After a second See also:period of abeyance the barony of Willoughby de Eresby was revived in 1871 in favour of Clementina See also:Elizabeth (d. 1888), a descendant of the Berties, who was the widow of See also:Gilbert See also:John See also:Heathcote, 1st See also:Baron Aveland (d. 1867). Her son and successor, GILBERT See also:HENRY HEATHCOTE-See also:DRUMMOND-WILLOUGHBY (b. 1830), 23rd Baron Willoughby de Eresby, and See also:joint hereditary lord great chamber-lain, was created earl of Ancaster in 1898.

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