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William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 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) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809).
What proved to be a long co-held title, Duke of Portland, was created in 1716 and became extinct in 1990 upon the death of the ninth Duke, at which point the earldom passed to the most senior agnatic (solely male-line) cousin, namely one of the 6th degree.
Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, CMG (18 June 1897 – 30 July 1990), known as Victor Cavendish-Bentinck until 1977 and Lord Victor Cavendish-Bentinck from 1977 to 1980, and informally as Bill Bentinck, was a British diplomat, businessman, and peer.
The Earls and Dukes of Portland of Welbeck Abbey - a Brief History. The earliest Portland title was held by Richard Weston, Baron Weston (1576-1635), who was created 1st Earl of Portland in 1633.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland was a British prime minister from April 2 to Dec. 19, 1783, and from March 31, 1807, to Oct. 4, 1809; on both occasions he was merely the nominal head of a government controlled by stronger political leaders. The eldest son of William, 2nd Duke.
About The Duke of Portland. The aristocratic Portland was the nominal head of two governments twenty-five years apart. He was a powerful figure of late 18th Century politics, making an important impact on party politics and serving in government as Home Secretary during the 1790s.
Biography. The Duke of Portland always thought of himself as a Whig. However he was an important figure in a realignment of British politics which laid the foundation of Tory government in the...
William Bentinck, Duke of Portland, twice served as Prime Minister: from 2 April to 18 December 1783 and from 31 March 1807 to 4 October 1809. He was born on 14 April 1738, the eldest son and third of six children born to the second Duke of Portland and his wife Margaret Cavendishe Harley.
May 23, 2018 · Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of (1738–1809) British statesman, prime minister (1783, 1807–09). He was briefly made prime minister at the end of the American Revolution. As home secretary (1794–1801), Portland helped William Pitt (the Younger) draft the Act of Union (1801).
The Duke of Portland. Lord William Bentinck: Precursor of the Risorgimento. Elizabeth Wiskemann writes that Bentinck’s achievements as British Minister in Sicily, and inspirer of Italian resistance to Napoleon in the years 1811-1814, suggest interesting parallels with recent conflicts. The Portland Archive.
