Hugh Burdett Money-Coutts, 6th Baron Latymer

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 One 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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