Gilbert John Heathcote (1795 - 1867)

Born 16 Jan 1795 in Normanton Hall, Normanton, Rutland, England

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Born at Normanton Hall, he was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 4th Baronet and his first wife Katherine Sophia Manners, fourth daughter of John Manners.^[1] He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Whig politician. In 1820 he was elected to Parliament for Boston, a seat he held until 1830, and again from 1831 to 1832. In 1827, he married Clementina Drummond-Willoughby, eldest daughter of Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby.^[2] He later represented Lincolnshire South from 1832 to 1841 and Rutland from 1841 to 1856. Olney describes him as "lukewarm in politics", with the "South Lincolnshire Liberals (finding) it hard to do anything with him, but equally hard to act without him." In 1851, he succeeded his father as baronet', and was known as Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet, from 1851 to 1856. In 1856 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Aveland, of Aveland in the County of Lincoln. Having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire and Rutland, he later served as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire from 1862 to 1867. As Lord Lieutenant his duties included the appointment, from advised candidates, of county magistrates, in which he was considered socially conservative being reluctant to appoint those not considered of suitable social standing, however respectable. In 1866 he expressed opposition to the 1867–passed Reform Act designed to widen franchise. Heathcote was appointed honorary colonel of the South Lincoln Militia in 1857. He died in September 1867, aged 72, and was succeeded by his son Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, who later also succeeded his mother in the barony of Willoughby de Eresby in 1888 and was created Earl of Ancaster in 1892.^[3]

From Other Last Names field: 'Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet (1851-1856) and 1st Baron Aveland (from 1856)'

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1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPQH-7K3 : 11 February 2018, Gilbert John Heathcote, 16 Jan 1795); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 580,906, 580,907.
2. ↑ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY3N-N3X : 10 February 2018), Gilbert John Heathcote and Clementina Elizabeth Drummond Burrell, 08 Oct 1827; citing Muthill,Perth,Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,040,132.
3. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JD4-WGM : 31 December 2014), Gilbert John Heathcote, 1867; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

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