Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer

Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer[1] (13 August 1876 – 23 November 1949) was an English peer.[2] He inherited the title Baron Latymer from his father, Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer.

Hugh Money-Coutts, 8th Baron Latymer
Born
Hugh Money-Coutts

13 August 1876
Died23 November 1949 (aged 73)
TitleBaron Latymer
PredecessorFrancis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer
SuccessorThomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 7th Baron Latymer
Parents
  • Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (father)
  • Edith Ellen née Churchill (mother)

Money-Coutts was educated at Radley College and New College, Oxford. After university he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he was promoted to a lieutenant on 7 March 1904.[3] He came within 50 votes of winning the seat of Petersfield for the Liberals in the 1906 United Kingdom general election.[4] In 1908 he moved to Stoodleigh in Devon.[5] In 1910 he left the Liberals to join the Conservatives. His Times obituary states that from this time he was an "effective controversialist" on the subject of Tariff Reform.[6] During the World War I he served as an officer in the Royal North Devon Yeomanry.[7]

He wrote 'The Broads' in 1919;[8] 'Chances and Changes' in 1931; and 'Stalking in Scotland and New Zealand' in 1935.[9]

Family

Money-Coutts married in 1900 Hester Frances Russell, the 4th daughter of Major-General John Cecil Russell, CVO, they had three sons and one daughter:[10]

  • Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 7th Baron Latymer (1901–1987)
  • Lt.-Colonel Hon. Alexander Burdett Money-Coutts (1902–1994)
  • Major Hon. Godfrey Burdett Money-Coutts (1905–1979)
  • Hon. Mercy Burdett Money-Coutts (1910–1993), who married in 1947 Michael Seiradhakis, and moved to Greece.

References
  1. NPG details
  2. "Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer, Hugh Burdett". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 28 July 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. "No. 27660". The London Gazette. 22 March 1904. p. 1873.
  4. Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
  5. Stoodleigh Court
  6. 'Lord Latymer' The Times (London, England), Friday, November 25, 1949, Issue 51548, p.7.
  7. London Gazette 25 August 1914
  8. World Cat
  9. National Library of New Zealand
  10. Geneanet


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