Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer explained

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]

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:[8]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp83112/hugh-burdett-money-coutts-6th-baron-latymer NPG details
  2. Book: Craig. FWS. British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. 1974. Macmillan Press. London. 9781349022984.
  3. http://swarch.net/data/uploads/stoodleigh-church-final-report.pdf Stoodleigh Court
  4. 'Lord Latymer' The Times (London, England), Friday, November 25, 1949, Issue 51548, p.7.
  5. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28879/page/6700/data.pdf London Gazette 25 August 1914
  6. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/657110130 World Cat
  7. http://www.epic.org.nz/records/36387784?search%5Bi%5D%5Bcategory%5D=Books&search%5Bi%5D%5Bcentury%5D=1900&search%5Bi%5D%5Bdecade%5D=1930&search%5Bil%5D%5Bis_catalog_record%5D=false&search%5Bil%5D%5Bndha_rights%5D=100&search%5Bil%5D%5Bprimary_collection%5D=National+Library+of+New+Zealand+Catalogue&search%5Bpath%5D=items National Library of New Zealand
  8. https://gw.geneanet.org/genroy?lang=en&n=money+coutts&oc=0&p=hugh Geneanet