Background
The third son of Willoughby Bertie, 3rd Earl of Abingdon, he was educated at Westminster School.
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Peregrine Bertie
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Education
Westminster School.
Career
Commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 17 December 1759, he was promoted commander on 1 January 1762 and given command of the sloop HMS Despatch. He was made a post-captain on 6 November 1762 and commanded the fifth-rate Repulse until February 1763. He got another command, the frigate HMS Shannon, that August, which he took to Africa and then the Leeward Islands before giving up command in 1764.
In 1765, he inherited the estate of Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire from his great-uncle, Norreys Bertie.
A Tory like the rest of the family, he was noted in 1780 as an opposition member who rarely attended Parliament. Lord Abingdon was a supporter of the Shelburne Ministry, and made sure that Bertie was on hand to vote in support of the peace preliminaries to end the American Revolutionary War in February 1783.
Bertie also went to sea again for the first time in almost twenty years: he briefly commanded HMS Fortitude in early 1783, and HMS Carnatic from April 1786 to 1788. His one recorded speech was in opposition to the government, in favor of John Pollexfen Bastard"s motion in 1788 on naval promotions.
Despite voting against the First Pitt the Younger ministry over the Regency Bill in 1789, the Pittite Abingdon again returned Peregrine for Westbury in the 1790 election on 16 June 1790.
He had just married (on 7 May) Elizabeth Hutchins, but they had no children, as he died on 20 August, before Parliament opened.
Membership
14th Parliament of Great Britain. 15th Parliament of Great Britain. 16th Parliament of Great Britain.
17th Parliament of Great Britain.
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Nationality
British