Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon

Though young and not yet matriculated, he was chosen captain of the company of militia foot raised from Christ Church during the Monmouth Rebellion.

On 22 September 1687, he married Anne (d. 28 April 1715), the daughter and coheiress of Peter Venables (d. 1679), baron of Kinderton.

Like the bulk of his family, he was a Tory, and voted to agree with the Lords that the throne was not vacant after the flight of James II.

A member of several committees, he spoke briefly in May on the quarrel between his uncle Henry Bertie and Sir William Harbord.

After the 1705 English general election, the entrance of the Whigs into government meant that he was deprived of his offices in October 1705.

[6] In 1703–1704, Abingdon purchased the manor of Littleton Auncells from George Bowditch and James Townsend, which he added to his adjoining estate at West Lavington, Wiltshire.

The funeral hatchment of Mary, Dowager Countess of Abingdon, in St. Peter's Church, Dorchester, Dorset, England.On a lozenge, the arms of Bertie, "Argent, three battering rams fesswise in pale proper, headed and banded azure," with an escutcheon of pretence showing the arms of Gould, "Per saltire or and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged." Supporters: Dexter: a grey friar holding in his right hand a staff and rosary, Sinister: a wild man. Each supporter charged on the breast with a fret Or.Above all, an earl's coronet.