Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale

The Lord Redesdale
Portrait by Samuel Lawrence, 1865
Member of Parliament
for Stratford-on-Avon
In office
4 July 1892 – 8 July 1895
Preceded byFrederick Townsend
Succeeded byVictor Milward
Personal details
Born
Algernon Bertram Mitford

(1837-02-24)24 February 1837
Mayfair, London, England
Died17 August 1916(1916-08-17) (aged 79)
Batsford, Gloucestershire, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Lady Clementine Ogilvy
(m. 1874)
Children9, including David
EducationEton College
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
"The Nobleman of the Garden". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1902

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL, FRPS (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters.


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