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Lord Edward Charles Bentinck. (1744-1819), Brother of 3rd Duke of Portland. Sitter in 2 portraits. Like. List Thumbnail. Sort by. William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; Lord Edward Charles Bentinck. by John Raphael Smith, after Benjamin West. mezzotint, published 1774.
Collections. Painted for Richard Cumberland, father of the sitter; Lord Edward Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, husband of the sitter; The Ven. William Bentinck, rector of the parish of Sigglesthorne and Archdeacon of Westminster, son of the sitter, 1868;
Biography. Nicknamed ‘Jolly Heart’, Lord Edward Bentinck entered Parliament because he was the brother of a Duke, but had no liking for it. He was returned unopposed at Lewes on the Duke of Newcastle’s interest, as a compliment to his brother. Portland soon had reason to complain of his slack attendance. He wrote to Bentinck, 28 Feb. 1767:
5 de feb. de 2024 · Bentinck (later Cavendish-Bentinck), Rt. Hon. Lord William Charles Augustus (1780-1826). Third son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809), 3rd Duke of Portland, and his wife Lady Dorothy, only daughter of William Cavendish (1720-64), 4th Duke of Devonshire, born at Burlington House, Piccadilly, Westminster (Middx), 20 May and baptised at St James, Piccadilly, Westminster, 17 June 1780.
22 This was the Muslim tradition, Scholars, themselves were rewarded, by titles and presents, at Court, and by pensions and grants of lands. Mr Thomason, in his Minute of 8 April 1841, writes, that at Delhi. “they have always been accustomed to regard these colleges as eleemosynary institutions for poor students.….
As the only brother of the Whig leader, the 3rd Duke of Portland, who rescued him from his financial scrapes, Bentinck had to resign himself to a parliamentary career, but his heart was never in it. Until Portland’s sons were of age, he was the family Member for Nottinghamshire. He silently followed his brother’s line in opposition, pairing ...
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809).
