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 Duke of Portland
William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke, had a strong desire to be withdrawn from society.
She stated that the Duke had led a double life and spent much of his time in London as Mr.
The 6th Duke carried the Crown of H.M. Queen Elizabeth (queen mother) at the coronation of George VI in 1937.
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  William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland ( 24 June 1768 - 27 March 1854) was a British politician who served in various positions in the governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, styled Marquess of Titchfield from birth 1768 to marriage 1795.
William Henry Cavendish, Duke of Portland from 1809- death 1854.
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 PORTLAND (MAINE) - LoveToKnow Article on PORTLAND (MAINE)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Portland is served by the Maine Central, the Boston and Maine, and the Grand Trunk railways; by steamboat lines to New York, Boston, Bar Harbor, Saint John, N.B., and other coast ports, and, during the winter season, by the Allan and Dominion transatlantic lines.
The duke of Portland was undoubtedly buried in Kensal Green cemetery in 1879.
Portland was the capital of the state from 1820 to 1832 and in the latter year was chartered as a city.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 960
Peregrine Andrew Mornay Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire is the son of Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and Hon.
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland was the son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish.
She married William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish, on 4 August 1795.
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 Duke of Portland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The 6th Duke carried the Crown of HM Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) at the coronation of George VI in 1937.
Earl of Portland (Henry Noel Bentinck) was born on the 2
Earl of Portland (Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck) was born on the 22
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 The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Portland Peerage Romance, by Charles J. Archard.
Portland behaved with great magnanimity in the matter, his one chief desire appeared to be to avoid a quarrel between his royal friend and Parliament.
As a Duke's daughter she was still Lady Charlotte and took precedence of Marchionesses, Countesses, and Viscountesses in the etiquette of royal courts and drawing-rooms.
The Duke was Master of the Horse from 1886 to 1892, and from 1895 to 1905; and the Duchess acted as Mistress of the Robes for a short time in 1905, she was also one of the "Canopy Duchesses" at the Coronation.
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 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the other hand, in an interview by Lord Melville with William Pitt in 1803, the latter argued that "this person generally called the first minister" was an absolute necessity for a government to function, and expressed his belief that this person should be the minister in charge of the finances.
William attempted to impose his personal will in 1834, when he dismissed William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (whose Whig administration he disliked) and replaced him with a Tory, Sir Robert Peel.
Firstly, in 1766, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (previously William Pitt the Elder) was asked by the King to form a ministry, but chose to take the office of Lord Privy Seal instead of the position of First Lord.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 961
William John Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland was the son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland and Henrietta Scott.
Lt.-Gen. Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck was the son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish.
Maj.-Gen. Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck was the son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish.
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 William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland - Result for William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, 5th ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
'''William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland''' (1800-1879) was a United Kingdom British aristocrat ic list of notable eccentrics eccentric who preferred to live in seclusion.
His father was William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland and his sister was Charlotte Denison, Viscountess Ossington.
Later, a widow, Anne Maria Druce, claimed that the Duke was also her husband, a shopkeeper by the name of Thomas Charles Druce, who had died in 1864.
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 Welbeck
The Duke's niece Georgina A.F. Bentinck, aged 39, was also in residence together with son-in-law John Evelyn Dennison, aged 39, and three visitors, all ladies in their sixties, two from London and one from Edwinstowe.
In an interview in the 'Worksop Guardian' of January 10th, 1930, Mr William Eyre of Creswell, who was born in the reign of William IV and who worked at Welbeck as a cabinetmaker for 63 years, remembered the 4th Duke.
The Duke could express himself quite forcibly in print, as evidenced in his letters to Sir Robert Anstruther in Fife, rebutting allegations that he had issued circulars to his tenants telling them how to vote in 1868, but he was rarely if ever heard to utter a word of anger.
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 MSS - 4th Duke of Portland, University of Nottingham
F 2 r has another note from Mandeville to the duke, in which he states his age, and that he can still work; there is an endorsement by the Duke of Portland indicating that Mandeville may receive 14 shillings per week until 1840, when he will be 50.
The Duke of Portland has drafted a reply on the reverse of the letter; the letter is written in short hand and is, therefore, difficult to decipher.
On f 3v is a draft of a reply from the Duke of Portland; the reply is written in short hand and is, therefore, difficult to decipher.
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 The Portland Peerage Romance, by Charles J. Archard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Portland behaved with great magnanimity in the matter, his one chief desire appeared to be to avoid a quarrel between his royal friend and Parliament.  Not many men would have had such self-abnegation as to renounce an estate estimated to be worth 6,000l.
William, second Duke, was a Knight of the Garter, as most of the other holders of the title have been, and he died in 1762.  It was through his marriage with the grand-daughter of the Duke of Newcastle that the Bentincks became possessed of Welbeck.
The Duke was not a man to be beaten by the weather; he defied it; he was determined to have his grass in the rickyard, wet or dry.  So the order went forth that his traction-engine and waggons were to be ready for carrying it on a certain day.
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 William Bentinck - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland ( 1709 - 1762)
William Bentinck ( 1704 - 1774), a fellow of the Royal Society
William Bentinck ( 1764 - 1813), a fellow of the Royal Society
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 Knights of the Garter (1700-1899)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Duke Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha, brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales (1750)
Prince George of Cambridge, son of the Duke of Cambridge, afterwards 2nd Duke of Cambridge and Commander-in-Chief of the British army (1835)
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1858)
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (April 14, 1738 – October 30, 1809) was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of Oxford University and Prime Minister.
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (24 June, 1768 - 27 March, 1854).
Portland is a great-great-great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II (see Ancestry of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom).
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 Talbot Correspondence Project: FEILDING Elisabeth Theresa, née Fox Strangways to TALBOT William Henry Fox, 19 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768–1854), owner of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1786–1854), owner of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire.
Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam of Ireland and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam of England (1786–1857), owner of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.
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 I17497: William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 4th Duke Of Portland (24 JUN 1768 - )
I17497: William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 4th Duke Of Portland (24 JUN 1768 -)
Spouses of William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 4th Duke Of Portland
Descendants of William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 4th Duke Of Portland and Henrietta Scott
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 Articles - Earl of Portland
This earldom was held by the Duke of Portland ( Peerage of Great Britain) from 1716 to 1990, when the Dukedom became extinct, and the earldom was inherited by a distant cousin.
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, 3rd Earl of Portland ( 1709 - 1762)
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 4th Earl of Portland ( 1738 - 1809)
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 Lord Chamberlain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1765-1766
William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire 1827-1828
William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1879-1880
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 Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Charles Watson-Wentworth
His supporters included Lord John Cavendish, son of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire; George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester; William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; and Barlow Trecothick, a merchant who would become Lord Mayor of London in 1770.
Rockingham served with the support of the King and the Duke of Cumberland who had promoted his ministry to the King while Grenville was in office.
Rockingham's government was responsible for the repeal of the Stamp Act in February, 1766, inspired by protests in the colonies against the act that imposed duties on all official papers used in the colonies.
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 Duke of Portland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Duke of Portland is a (The peers of a kingdom considered as a group) peerage title created in 1716 for Henry Bentinck, who was already (Click link for more info and facts about Earl of Portland) Earl of Portland.
The Dukedom of Portland became extinct on the 9th Duke's death, though the 9th Duke's distant cousin succeeded him as Earl of Portland.
William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943)
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 MSS - 4th Duke of Portland, University of Nottingham
MSS - 4th Duke of Portland, University of Nottingham
On F 2r is a reply form the Duke of Portland, drafted in shorthand, which is consequently difficult to decipher.
On f 2r there is a reply from the Duke of Portland, drafted in shorthand, therefore difficult to decipher.
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As such, it was vital to the smooth running of the British war economy and consequently the entire British war effort.
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (July 30, 1801–January 14, 1805)
William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (August 17, 1827–January 28, 1828)
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 Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3d duke of
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3d duke of, 1738 – 1809, British statesman; great-grandson of the 1st earl of Portland.
He was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1782) and nominal head of the coalition ministry (1783) dominated by Charles James Fox and Lord North.
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3d duke of (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
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 Duke of Portland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland ( 1682 - 1726)
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portand ( 1708 - 1762)
William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland ( 1857 - 1943)
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Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish- (1738-1809) 3rd Duke of Portland, statesman ( 56)
Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish-Scott- (1768-1854) 4th Duke of Portland, statesman ( 9)
Bentinck, William John Arthur Charles Cavendish- (1857-1943) 6th Duke of Portland ( 5)
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
Bohun, Humphrey VIII de, 4th earl of Hereford and 3d earl of Essex
Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th earl of
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 Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England
King William himself declared "We most earnestly desire and shall endeavour a general reformation of manners", and there followed several great waves of enthusiasm for moral regeneration, and a veritable army of informers.
William Minton, age 19, had previously met Rigby in St James's Park to see the fireworks on the Fifth of November (Guy Fawkes Night), 1698, where Rigby "took him by the hand, and squeez'd it; put his Privy Member Erected into Minton's Hand; kist him, and put his Tongue into Minton's Mouth".
King William was widely believed to belong to the sodomitical brotherhood, but he defended his fondness for one of his courtiers: "it seems to me a most extraordinary thing that one may not feel regard and affection for a young man without its being criminal".
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 William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), Statesman
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), Statesman
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