Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer[1] (13 August 1876 – 23 November 1949) was an English peer. He inherited the title Baron Latymer from his father, Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer.
Hugh Money-Coutts, 8th Baron Latymer | |
Birth Name: | Hugh Money-Coutts |
Birth Date: | 13 August 1876 |
Death Date: | 23 November 1949 (aged 73) |
Baron Latymer | |
Predecessor: | Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer |
Successor: | Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, 7th Baron Latymer |
Mother: | Edith Ellen née Churchill |
Father: | Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer |
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. He came within 50 votes of winning the seat of Petersfield for the Liberals in the 1906 United Kingdom general election.[2] In 1908 he moved to Stoodleigh in Devon.[3] 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.[4] During the World War I he served as an officer in the Royal North Devon Yeomanry.[5]
He wrote 'The Broads' in 1919;[6] 'Chances and Changes' in 1931; and 'Stalking in Scotland and New Zealand' in 1935.[7]
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:[8]