William Angerstein, Esq.
(1811-1897)
1 August 1861

Volume 4, page 319, sitting number 5348.

Born on 24 October 1811, William Angerstein was the son of John Angerstein, who was elected the MP for Camelford in 1796 and for Greenwich in 1835. He was baptised at St Alphage in Greenwich on 24 January 1812. 

His grandfather was John Julius Angerstein, whose art collection was acquired for the nation in 1824 and subsequently formed the core of the National Gallery's collection.

On 22 September 1842 John Angerstein married Mary Ann Nettleshipp, daughter of William Nettleshipp at North Cray in Kent. 

The couple appear on the 1851 census living at Kelmarsh Hall in Northamptonshire with their three young sons and one daughter. The household included a governess and 23 servants, among them a butler, three footmen, a head groom, an under-groom, three stablemen and a brewer. 

William Angerstein died, aged 85, on 31 May 1897.

‘The funeral of the late Mr William Anderson whose death we announced last week, took place at Weeting on Saturday. Mr Angerstein died on the 31st ult., at Wroughton-house, Swindon, in his 86th year. He was the youngest son of Mr John Angerstein, of Weeting-hall, tin this country, and Woodlands, Blackheath, by Amelia, daughter of Mr William Locke, of Norbury-park, Surrey. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church. He married, in 1842, Mary Ann, only child of Mr William Nettleshipp, of Haselbury, Somerset. Mr Angerstein sat for Greenwich from 1859 till 1865, and at the dissolution in that years, as also in 1868, he contested West Kent. He was a magistrate for Kent, Norfolk, and Suffolk, and DL for Kent and Norfolk. [The articles ends with a list of the mourners and a description of the funeral.] (Norfolk Chronicle, 12 June 1897.)