Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver

Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver (1865-1911) was named after his distant cousin, Lord Mortimer Wimsey, second son of the 11th Duke, the "Hermit of the Wash". Unlike his cousin, he was not of a saintly or intellectual disposition, but one of the hearty, beefy, Wimseys.

He died in a hunting accident in 1911, exposing his family to the Death duties recently imposed by David Lloyd George's 1909 budget.

He left two sons: his successor, the 16th Duke, and Lord Peter Wimsey, the detective.