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Bertie of Thame, Viscount (UK, 1918 - 1954)

Creation: let.pat. 2 Sep 1918

Extinct: 29 Aug 1954

Family name: Bertie

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Arms:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent three Battering Rams proper headed and garnished Azure (Bertie);  2nd and 3rd, Sable a Shattered Castle triple towered Argent (Willoughby)

Crest:

A Saracen's Head couped at the shoulders proper ducally crowned Or charged on the chest with a Fret Azure and a Crescent for difference

Supporters:

Dexter:  A Friar vested in russet grey with a Crutch and Rosary all proper;  Sinister:  A Savage also proper wreathed about the temples and waist with Leaves Vert, each Supporter charged on the breast with a Fret Azure and a Crescent for difference

Motto:

 Virtus ariete fortior

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Francis Leveson [Bertie], 1st Baron Bertie of Thame later 1st Viscount Bertie of Thame, GCB GCMG GCVO PC

2nd son of Montagu [Bertie], 6th Earl of Abingdon, by his wife Elizabeth Lavinia Vernon-Harcourt, only dau. and hrss. by his first wife of George Granville Vernon-Harcourt MP, of Nuneham Courtenay, co. Oxford

born

17 Aug 1844

mar.

11 Apr 1874 Lady Feodorowna Cecilia Wellesley (d. 30 Mar 1920), 1st dau. of Henry Richard [Wellesley], 1st Earl Cowley, by his wife Hon Olivia Cecilia FitzGerald-de Ros, 1st dau. of Lord Henry FitzGerald (by his wife Charlotte Boyle-Walsingham, suo jure Baroness de Ros), 4th son of James [FitzGerald], 1st Duke of Leinster

only child

1. Hon Vere Frederick Bertie, later 2nd Viscount Bertie of Thame

died

26 Sep 1919

created

28 Jun 1915 Baron Bertie of Thame, of Thame in the County of Oxford

2 Sep 1918 Viscount Bertie of Thame, of Thame in the County of Oxford

suc. by

son

note

entered the Foreign Office 1863; Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1874-80 ; Acting Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service at the Berlin Congress 1878; Acting Assistant Clerk at the Foreign Office 1880-81; Assistant Clerk 1881-82; Acting Senior Clerk 1882-85; Senior Clerk 1889-94; Assistant Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1894-1903; Chairman, Uganda Railway Committee 1896-1903; KCB 1902; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome 1903-05 and at Paris 1905-18; Privy Councillor 1903; GCVO 1903; GCMG 1904; GCB 1908

Vere Frederick [Bertie], 2nd Viscount Bertie of Thame

born

20 Oct 1878

mar.

1901 Nora Webb, 1st dau. of Frederick Webb by his wife Elizabeth Wells, dau. of Henry Wells

died

s.p. 29 Aug 1954

note

barrister, Inner Temple 1902

On the death of the 2nd Viscount Bertie of Thame the Viscountcy of Bertie of Thame became extinct.

First written 19 Jul 2006

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