Henry Bertie

Henry Bertie (4 May 1675 – 18 December 1735) was an English politician and Lords Proprietor of Carolina who sat on the House of Commons from 1705 to 1727. Biography Bertie was the third son of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon and his wife Eleanora Lee, the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Baronet, of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire. Bertie was one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, heir of the proprietorship granted to Sir William Berkeley. At the 1705 general election, he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Beaumaris, a pocket borough in Wales. He won a contest at Beamaris in the 1708 general election and was returned unopposed in 1710, 1713 and 1715. He won another contest in 1722 but was defeated at the 1727 general election by Watkin Williams-Wynn. Bertie died at Boulogne on 18 December 1735.