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Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (17 March 1682 – 4 July 1726) was a British Army officer, peer, Whig politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica from 1721 to 1726.
Hace 19 horas · Henry Bentinck, Duke and Earl of Portland. The eldest surviving son of William and Frances he was Marquis of Tichfield, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Cirencester and in 1716 Duke of Portland. He commanded a troop of Life Guards, was a Member of Parliament and Governor of Jamaica 1721-1726.
In 1716 Henry was created 1st Duke of Portland and Marquess of Titchfield, largely in memory of his illustrious father. Having inherited vast estates, he should have been extremely prosperous, but suffered heavy losses when the South Sea Bubble burst in 1720.
26 de abr. de 2022 · In 1709, he left the Commons for the Lords after inheriting his father's earldom, was appointed Colonel of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards a year later and elevated in the Peerage as Marquess of Titchfield and Duke of Portland in 1716.
Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (17 March 1682 – 4 July 1726) was a British Army officer, peer, Whig politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Jamaica from 1721 to 1726.
19 de sept. de 2022 · Hans Willem Bentinck’s eldest surviving son, Henry, carried on the family legacy as a chief supporter of the Whig political agenda in Britain—that is a limited, Protestant monarchy—and was therefore created 1 st Duke of Portland by the new Hanoverian regime in 1716.
When Henry Bentinck 1st Duke of Portland was born on 17 March 1682, in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Hans Willem Bentinck 1st Earl of Portland, was 32 and his mother, Anne Frances Villiers, was 27. He married Her Grace Elizabeth Noel, Duchess Consort of Portland on 9 June 1704, in Chiswick, Middlesex, England.
