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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.)
Portland was born William Henry, Lord Titchfield in April 1738 into an aristocratic family at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was briefly MP for the seat of Weobley in 1761 but was elevated to the House of Lords upon the death of his father the following year.
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 ...
Portland and his wife had three sons and seven daughters, who included William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, later Marquess of Titchfield, later 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762) Lord George (1715–1759), soldier; Lady Anne (d. 1749), married Col. Daniel Paul
Their daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, was married in 1743 to William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762). As a result of this union, a considerable quantity of the Newcastle/Cavendish papers passed into the Portland, rather than the Newcastle Collection.
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762), British peer; married to Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715–1785), Cavendish heiress and bluestocking William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British politician, twice Prime Minister; married to Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1750–1794)
William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, twice served as Prime Minister: from 2 April to 18 December 1783 and from 31 March 1807 to 4 October 1809. He was born on 14 April 1738, the eldest son and third of six children born to the second Duke of Portland and his wife Margaret Cavendishe Harley. Portland's mother was the heir of the second Earl of ...
