Herbert Conyers Surtees
(1858-1933)
10 October 1862

Volume 9, page 252, sitting number 12,004.

Herbert Conyers Surtees was born on 13 January 1858 and christened at St James’s, Paddington, on 23 February 1858. He was the only son of Charles Freville Surtees and Bertha Surtees née Chauncy. Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he entered the Army in 1876, eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Coldstream Guards. During the course of his military career he saw action in Egypt and South Africa, and during the Great War, in France and Belgium. He received numerous awards, including a knighthood in 1932.

In 1887 he married Madeline Augusta, daughter of Mr Edward Crabbe. The couple had two daughters.

Surtees was the Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1918 to 1922. He was also the author of several publications, including various histories of the parishes in County Durham, a genealogy of the Surtees family, and a work on the monumental inscriptions in Durham Cathedral. He succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Mainsforth, and in later life, lived at Mainsforth Hall, Ferry Hill, County Durham.

Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Conyers Surtees died on 18 April 1933.

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton in Surrey. Born the daughter of George and Harriet Vesey in 1842, she was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey. She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish in Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of soul.’ The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]