Lord George Bentinck (1715–1759) was a British Army officer and

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(MP).

Biography

The second son of

Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (17 March 1682 – 4 July 1726), of Titchfield, Hampshire, styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 until 1709, was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 17 ...

, he received the appointment of ensign on 3 November 1735, and having been promoted on 12 April 1743 to the command of a company in the

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, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he served at the

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in June that year. He obtained the appointment of aide-de-camp to the King on 12 March 1752, and the colonelcy of the

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on 29 August 1754. He was afterwards promoted to the rank of major-general, and at the

1754 general election Events January–March * January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''serendipity''. * February 22 – Expecting an attack by Portuguese-speaking militias in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Pla ...

he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the borough of

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in Wiltshire. He died at Bath on 2 March 1759.

Richard Cannon Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army. Career On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803. Under a Horse Guards order ...

, ''Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot, or Northumberland Fusiliers'' (London, 1838
p. 113
Bentinck was elected at by-election in 1742 as a Member of Parliament for the borough of

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. At the next general election, in 1747, he was elected as an MP for the

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. He held that seat until the

, when he was elected for the borough of

in Wiltshire. He held that seat until his death. In 1753 he married Mary Davies at

Keith's Chapel Keith's Chapel, also known as Mr Keith's Chapel and the May Fair Chapel, was a private chapel in Curzon Street, Mayfair, Westminster, operated by the 18th century Church of England clergyman Alexander Keith. Keith had been the first incumbent of t ...

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.''National and English Review'', Volume 95 (1930), p. 966

References

1715 births 1759 deaths

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