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Bentinck was born in Buckinghamshire, the second son of Prime Minister William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Lady Dorothy (née Cavendish), only daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. On the marriage the family name became Cavendish-Bentinck. He was educated at Westminster School, a boys' public school in Westminster, London.
Biography. Portland was the elder son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, and his wife, Winifred Anna (née Dallas-Yorke). He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in 1922, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1943, and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury under Stanley Baldwin from 1927 to 1929 and under ...
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762) Margaret Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785) John Albert Bentinck (1737-1775; naval captain and M.P.) William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809) William Bentinck (1764-1813; Vice-Admiral) William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of ...
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour. A recluse who preferred to live in seclusion, he had an elaborate ...
The 4th Duke of Portland began his education in Ealing, at the school run by Dr Samuel Goodenough (later Bishop of Carlisle). He later went on to attend Westminster School and then Oxford University, though he spent only a brief amount of time at the latter after his father, the 3rd Duke, decided to send him to complete his education at The Hague.
In 1990, after the extinction of the male line from his half-brother the 1st Duke of Portland, his descendant Henry Bentinck, 7th Count Bentinck became the 11th Earl of Portland. One of his sons, Captain John Albert Bentinck , Royal Navy , of Terrington St Clement in Norfolk, a Count of the Empire, founded the line of Bentinck of Indio in the parish of Bovey Tracey in Devon.
Lord George Bentinck, as he was commonly known, claimed to have ‘sat in eight Parliaments without having taken part in any great debate’ when he assumed the leadership of the Protectionists in the Commons in 1846.1 The third of the four sons of the 4th duke of Portland and his wife, coheiress with her sisters the countess of Moray and the ...
