Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (

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Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 17503 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland and the 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 Whigs (British political party), Whig and then a Tories (British political party), Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He s ...

, the

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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 Prime Minister of ...

, the

and his wife Lady Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford.

Marriage and children

On 8 November 1766, Cavendish was married to

. They had nine children, six of whom survived to adulthood. * William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (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,

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. Early life Greville was born on 29 December 1798. He was t ...

, and Henry William Greville (1801–1872), and a daughter, Harriet (1803–1870) m. Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere * Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck (13 March 17786 November 1843) * Lord Charles Bentinck (3 October 178028 April 1826). Paternal grandfather of

Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (''née'' Cavendish-Bentinck; 11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and maternal grandmother and godmother of Queen Elizabeth&nbs ...

* 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 * A stillborn baby, birthed at Burlington House on 20 October 1786.

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 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...

(see ancestry of Elizabeth II)

Ancestry

Arms

References

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