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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