Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer

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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.[3]

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.[4] In 1900 he married Hester Frances, the 4th daughter of Major-General John Cecil Russell, CVO:[5] they had three sons and one daughter.[6] He came within 50 votes of winning the seat of Petersfield for the Liberals in the 1906 United Kingdom general election.[7] In 1908 he moved to Stoodleigh in Devon.[8] 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.[9] During the World War I he served as an officer in the Royal North Devon Yeomanry.[10] He wrote 'The Broads' in 1919;[11] 'Chances and Changes' in 1931; and 'Stalking in Scotland and New Zealand' in 1935.[12]

References[]

  1. ^ NPG details
  2. ^ "Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer, Hugh Burdett". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 28 July 2019. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  3. ^ thePeerage.com
  4. ^ London Gazette 22 March 2004
  5. ^ Cracrofts
  6. ^ Geneanet
  7. ^ Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
  8. ^ Stoodleigh Court
  9. ^ 'Lord Latymer' The Times (London, England), Friday, November 25, 1949, Issue 51548, p.7.
  10. ^ London Gazette 25 August 1914
  11. ^ World Cat
  12. ^ National Library of New Zealand
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Francis Money-Coutts
Baron Latymer
1923–1949
Succeeded by
Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts


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