Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

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Brownlow Bertie, 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1 May 1729, Lindsey House – 8 February 1809, Grimsthorpe). He was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Jane Brownlow, and the younger brother of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and uncle of Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven and Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby.

On his nephew's death on 8 July 1779, he succeeded him as 5th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, 5th Marquess of Lindsey and 8th Earl of Lindsey. The dukedom and the marquessate became extinct on his own death, the earldom passed to his kinsman, Albemarle Bertie.

He was baptized in London in the St Gile's-in-the-Fields Church.

He was Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire from 1761 to 1779, became Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire on 12 February 1779, and was invested as Privy Counsellor on the same day.

He married twice. His first wife, whom he married on 11 November 1762 in Cork Street in London, was Harriot Pitt (22 June 1745 – 23 April 1763). His second wife, whom he married on 2 January 1769 in St James's in London, was Mary Anne Layard (5 March 1733 – 13 January 1804).

His first marriage remained childless; with his second wife he had one daughter:

• Mary Elizabeth Bertie (died 10 February 1797), married to Thomas Charles Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore (27 March 1772 – 18 January 1835) on 26 May 1793; no issue

His funeral was on 17 February 1809 in Swinstead.

Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven	Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire 1779–1809	Succeeded by The Lord Brownlow
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Robert Bertie	Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven 1779–1809	Succeeded by Extinct
	Marquess of Lindsey 1779–1809	Succeeded by Extinct
Peerage of England
Preceded by Robert Bertie	Earl of Lindsey 1779–1809	Succeeded by Albemarle Bertie