Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland ( née Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 17503 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland the as wife of

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 173830 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) ...

, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. She was also a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II through the queen's

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Biography

Dorothy Cavendish was born on 27 August 1750 to

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, (8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal 5th Prime Mini ...

, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his wife Lady Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford.

Marriage and children

On 8 November 1766, Cavendish was married to

. They were parents of six children: *

William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, (24 June 1768 – 27 March 1854), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1809, was a British politician who served in various positions in the governments of George Canning and Lord Go ...

(24 June 176827 March 1854) * The Right Hon. Lord Charles William Cavendish Bentinck (1 July 177024 July 1770) * Unnamed son (25 August 1771died young) * Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 177417 June 1839) * Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck (3 October 177528 July 1862). Married Charles Greville, and they had three sons:

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827. His father Charles Greville was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick, and ...

Algernon Greville Algernon Frederick Greville (29 December 1798 – 15 December 1864) was an English soldier, cricketer, and officer of arms who served as private secretary to the Duke of Wellington. Life He was commissioned an ensign in the Grenadier Guards on ...

, and

Henry William Greville Henry William Greville (28 October 1801 – 12 December 1872) was an English aristocrat and diarist. He was the youngest son of Charles Greville, grandson of the fifth Lord Warwick, by Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck, eldest daughter of Will ...

(1801–1872), and a daughter, Harriet (1803–1870) m.

Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, (1 January 1800 – 18 February 1857), known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts. Ellesmere Island, a major island (10th in size am ...

* Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck (13 March 17786 November 1843) *

Lord Charles Bentinck Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck (20 May 178028 April 1826), known as Lord Charles Bentinck, was a British soldier and politician and a great-great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. Background Bentinck was the third son of Brit ...

(3 October 178028 April 1826). Paternal grandfather of Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne * Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (2 November 178111 February 1828) married Mary Lowther (d. 1863), daughter of William Lowther, 16 September 1820; had issue:

George Cavendish-Bentinck George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (9 July 1821 – 9 April 1891), known as George Bentinck and scored in cricket as GAFC Bentinck, was a British barrister, Conservative politician, and cricketer. A member of parliament from 1859 to ...

* A stillborn baby, birthed at Burlington House on 20 October 1786. According to newspaper accounts, she was the mother of nine children, only four of whom were living at the time of her own death.

Later life

The duchess died at her home, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and was buried in

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, London. She “died of a bowel complaint, which she had been subject to for many years, and which terminated in a mortification after a short illness. It was at first suspected, from the violent inflammation in her bowels, that her Grace had eaten water-gruel out of a copper saucepan not properly tinned; but this suspicion is certainly erroneous, as it proved on examination.”Kentish Gazette, 06 June 1794, Page 4 Bentinck was a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II (see

ancestry of Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during h ...

)

Ancestry

Arms

References

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