Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster & Kesteven

Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven held the office of Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Anne on 14 April 1702.

He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws (D.C.L.) by Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 27 August 1702.

He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Lincolnshire between 1708 and 1715.

He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 25 November 1708.

He succeeded to the title of 18th Lord Willoughby de Eresby on 16 March 1714/15, in his father's lifetime.

He held the office of a Gentleman of the Bedchamber between 1719 and 1727.

He succeeded to the title of 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven [G.B., 1715] on 26 July 1723.

He succeeded to the title of 5th Earl of Lindsey, co. Lincoln [E., 1626] on 26 July 1723.

He succeeded to the title of 2nd Marquess of Lindsey [G.B., 1706] on 26 July 1723.

He held the office of Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain between 26 July 1723 and 1742.

He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 3 January 1723/24.

He held the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire on 3 February 1723/24.

He held the office of Lord Warden and Justice in Eyre, North of Trent between 21 June 1734 and 1742.

He had two other daughters.

Bertie, who matriculated at Oxford in the late 17th century, graduated from that university in 1702. In 1708, he entered Parliament as MP for Lincolnshire, and was invested a Privy Counsellor that same year. He would serve in the House of Commons until he was summoned to the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration in his father's Barony of Willoughby de Eresby in 1715.

In June 1711, he married Jane Brownlow (d. 25 August 1736), daughter of Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet, by whom he had seven children:

   Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1714–1778)

   Lord Albemarle Bertie (d. 16 May 1765), blinded early in his youth, a gambler and sportsman depicted by Hogarth

   Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1729–1809)

   Lady Mary Bertie (d. 23 May 1774), married on 21 February 1748 Samuel Greatheed

   Lady Albinia Bertie (d. 12 February 1754), married in 1744 Francis Beckford, no issue

   Lady Jane Bertie (d. 21 August 1793), married on 31 March 1743 Gen. Edward Mathew and had issue

   Lady Caroline Bertie (d. 4 June 1744), married George Dewar

While serving as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, Lord Willougby de Eresby inherited the rest of his father's titles on his death in 1723; he also inherited the hereditary Great Office of Lord Great Chamberlain and was made Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in his late father's place. He had a seat on the Foundling Hospital's board of governors from the time of that charity's foundation in 1739. In 1742 he was made a Privy Counsellor. He served in these capacities, and also in the House of Lords, gaining the additional position of Lord Warden and Justice in Eyre until his death in 1742.