Henry Bertie (MP for Beaumaris)

Henry Bertie (4 May 1675 – 18 December 1735) was an English politician and Lords Proprietor of Carolina who sat on the House of Commons from 1705 to 1727.

[1] Bertie was the third son of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon and his wife Eleanora Lee, the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Lee, 3rd Baronet, of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire.

[2] Bertie was one of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, heir of the proprietorship granted to Sir William Berkeley.

At the 1705 general election, he was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Beaumaris, a pocket borough in Wales.

He won another contest in 1722 but was defeated at the 1727 general election by Watkin Williams-Wynn.