Lord Charles Bentinck (1780–1826), father of the priest, hence great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth II
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Amiable was foaled in 1891 at the Welbeck Stud near Welbeck Abbey in North Nottinghamshire, the estate of her breeder the Duke of Portland.
Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828.
She was christened on 27 October 1766 at St James's Palace, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Secker, and her godparents were her paternal uncle and aunt, King Christian VII of Denmark and his wife, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (for whom the Duke of Portland, Lord Chamberlain, and the Dowager Countess of Effingham, stood proxy, respectively) and her paternal aunt, Princess Louisa.
The town of Bella Coola is at the head of North Bentinck Arm; Bella Coola is the English name for the Nuxalk.
His involvement in the 1807 general election in Huntingdonshire and an 1809 pamphlet criticising what he saw as the nepotism of prime minister William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland saw to it that he found no favour with the Tory establishment who were to hold power until 1830.
Tschumi remained with the Duke of Portland until the Duke’s death in 1943, and thereafter helped the new Duke and Duchess, and the Dowager Duchess, for 5 or 6 months of each year.
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He thereafter worked for the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, as Chef from 1 July 1933.
This is the historical fine and decorative art collection of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, including "one of the great unknown British aristocratic collections of plate".
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland
The latter year Pitt made him Lord Privy Seal, a position he would hold under five prime Ministers (Pitt, Addington, Pitt again, Portland, Perceval and Liverpool) for the next 35 years, except between 1806 and 1807 when Lord Grenville was in office.
In 1815 he eloped with his mistress, Lady Abdy, daughter of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, and wife of Bentinck's friend Sir William Abdy, 7th Baronet.
He entered Parliament for Norfolk North-West in 1886, defeating Joseph Arch, a seat he lost in 1892, when Arch reclaimed the seat.
Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Caroline Louisa Burnaby) (c. 1831 – 6 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, great-great-grandmother of Charles, Prince of Wales, and great-great-great-grandmother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, as well as being an ancestress of other members of the British Royal Family, descended from the Queen Mother.
In 1766, the Genevan Romantic and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau met Bentinck, admired her knowledge of botany despite his general belief that women could not be scientific, and offered his services as her "herborist" (plant collector).
She married thirdly Baron Steven Charles John Bentinck (born 1957 (otherwise known as Carel Johannes Baron Bentinck), grandson of the industrialist and art collector Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon), nephew of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921–2002).
A spot on North Bentinck Arm is historically significant as the location where Hudson's Bay Company explorer Alexander MacKenzie reached the waters of the Pacific Ocean overland from Rupert's Land.
The name of Bentinck came from the family name of the Earl of Portland who was then based at Welbeck Abbey in nearby Clumber Park, and the current Earl is the BBC radio actor Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland; he is best known for playing David Archer in The Archers.
He married Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck in 1894.
The bay was named after the Duke of Portland, a Secretary of State and later Prime Minister of Great Britain, by Lieutenant James Grant sailing on the Lady Nelson, on 7 December 1800.
This was unfinished when Brown died at Venice in 1883, but some further work was done on it by his executor George Cavendish-Bentinck, before in 1889 the completion of the work was taken over by Horatio Brown (no relation).
On 11 December 1752 he married Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassill and his wife Henrietta Bentinck, daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.
1) Baroness Henriette Luisa Bentinck (b. in London, 1949–2010), the daughter of Baron Adolph Bentinck and Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.
The treaty arose after assemblies of Corsican notables met in Bastia, Saint-Florent, and L'Île-Rousse, and sent an invitation to Bentinck to send troops and take control of Corsica from French imperial forces.
One ship of the United States Navy under a lend lease program has been named Bentinck in honor of John Bentinck.
The 5th Duke of Portland constructed a dam across the river in the 1870s, to impound the water and create a lake.
In 1922, he took charge of administrative arrangements for the Lausanne Conference.
Sidings, however, were provided for the Duke of Portland.
As the social status of the spouses was considered too unequal (Willem being the social inferior) Bentinck bought his elevation to the rank of Imperial Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1732 from the German emperor.
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After the premature death of William IV, Bentinck was instrumental in putting the regency of the Princess Anne in place for her infant son William V, Prince of Orange as hereditary stadtholder-general in the Dutch Republic.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893–1977), 2nd Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
He died in March 1977, aged 84, and was succeeded in the dukedom by his third cousin Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck.
Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), British statesman and governor of India
Opened in 1798 and was likely named for John King, Under-Secretary of State in the Portland administration.