This double windfall of two generations of heiresses brought two major new properties from the Cavendish family, in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey. The family have been based in Inveraray since the early 15th century. Buccleuch Estate Records. He communicated via letter boxes all over the house, but really only occupied a small apartment, sparsely furnished, in one corner of one of the largest houses in Britain. It was a medieval fortress built to overlook the Scarsdale and the eastern edges of the Derbyshire dales (what today we might call the valley of the M1). The Newcastle line ended in the male line in 1690, and its chief heiress, Margaret, married the politician John Holles, Earl of Clare, for whom the Newcastle title was revived in 1694. A rental document details the name of tenants and the amount which they were due to pay on an annual basis. The modern Harley Gallery at Welbeck is named for her. Meanwhile there are also still Dutch barons too, in various branches of Schoonheten, Bevervoerde and Buckhorst. Located only a few miles east of Bolsover, it is across the county line in Nottinghamshire, and is one of the four ducal residences that gave the name the Dukeries to this area (Portland, Newcastle, Norfolk and Kingston). Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. He and his wife remained in Nairobi, even after he became duke, as there were no lands to inherit in England. The senior line became lords of Aller, and became extinct at the end of the 18th century. Their intense friendship deepened from then, though the jury is still out over whether this developed into a sexual relationship. Sutherland Estates. The 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry is Richard Scott, who, along with his family, is Britain's largest private landowner. The 3rd Duke of Fife, who has died aged 85, inherited fortunes, titles and estates in Scotland from both sides of his . Additionally, a 301 Moved Permanently error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. The estate was granted to the Montagu family in 1540 by King Henry VIII, having remained in the family until it came under royal ownership from 1938. It is one of the jewels in the crown of English Heritage. The twin free lordships of Kniphausen and Varel were ruled as an autonomous county within the Duchy of Oldenburg by the Bentincks for the rest of the 18th century. % He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. They were elevated to the rank of illustrious highness within the German aristocracy. While Marquis of Titchfield he sat in the House of Commons and later as Duke in the Lords, he had limited engagement with politics, which he left to his father, brother-in-law . The Portland Estate in Soho Fields In 1698 the first Earl of Portland was granted by the King the freehold of most of Soho Fields and of a smaller piece of ground in St. James's parish, in reversion from 1734. THE SUTHERLANDS OF LANGWELL. Following the restoration, the estate was restored. The church at Ellecom near Middachten became the burial place for this branch of the family. Marketed by Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove . QUEENSBERRY ESTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY. In As a result, all his honours became extinct on his death in 1688. It was thus a Cavendish-Holles-Harley heiress who became the 2nd Duchess of Portland. 6ORN){] Gw2S8h1f1 >l*RqA*Q59@}$K;hl4}CT/i]XCQ$\ On his return, The Duke applied himself to the 'improvement' of his Scottish estates, applying some of Smith's teachings in partnership with his agent, William Reid - harnessing the energies of his tenantry in an enlightened and mutually-beneficial way. Hendrick Bentinck rebuilt and enlarged it in the 1630s. daughter of the Earl of Errol and granddaughter of William Boyd the Once her half-brother William succeeded as 6th Duke of Portland in 1879, she was granted the rank of a dukes daughter, so entitled to be called Lady Ottoline, while her husband (married in 1902) was simply Mr Philip Morrell. Of the sons of the 4th Duke, the eldest, the Marquess of Titchfield, was expected to have a brilliant career, smart and well placed. The two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. The titles, but not the lands, went to a distant cousin, Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, who became the 8th Duke at age 89 in 1977. Born in 1768, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck succeeded as 4th Duke of Portland in 1809, on the death of his father, sometime Prime Minister and Whig leader. Bulstrude Park is located in Buckinghamshire, not far from Beaconsfield (and surprisingly close to the M40 motorway!). Hans Willem Bentinck was one of the leading supporters of Williams accession to the English and Scottish thrones; created earl of Portland, his son was elevated further as duke of Portland in 1716. In 1920 the east side had already been built up including by people . died, and Henrietta's husband became the 4th Duke of Besides the streets and squares in London bearing his family names, he also gave his name to Portland Inlet and Bentinck Channel along the coast of British Columbia. S1 E4 - 55m 25s. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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. When he died in 1711, his estates went to his daughter Henrietta who married another politician, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (son of the more famous first minister of Queen Anne), though the name Holles and the title Newcastle went to his nephew, Thomas Pelham. There has been a moated manor house here, near the town of Raalte, since the 1380s. ), William Bentinck (1764-1813; Vice-Admiral), Lord Henry William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (1804-1870), Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839), Winifred Anna Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1863-1954). William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, KG, GCVO, TD, PC, DL (28 December 1857 - 26 April 1943), known as William Cavendish-Bentinck until 1879, was a British landowner, courtier, and Conservative politician. View more posts. At nearly 80 years old., the 5th Duke had outlived his two closest male heirs, his cousins Charles and Arthur. South-Western Company. Originally created by James I as a hunting park, the house was a significant royal palace. In 1886, they were permitted, by royal licence, to bear the title Count Bentinck in the United Kingdom. ABOUT US. Count Henry Noel served in the British army in World War II, then became a producer for the BBC. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. passed to a cousin, but his widow continued in possession of the Welbeck estates, which on her death in 1755 passed to her daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley. The shoot at the 18,000 . The Duke of Portland The honour of having the first railway in Scotland belongs to Ayrshire. The Countess was the heiress of an Imperial county formed in the late 17th century out of fragments of the ancient county of Oldenburg (of which Aldenburg was an older variant spelling), which had passed into possession of the House of Denmark on the extinction of its legitimate male line. In 1734, the Duke married the richest heiress of the day, Lady Margaret Cavendish-Harley (or Cavendish-Holles-Harley), the daughter of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer and Lady Henrietta Holles, herself a major heiress. 1825-1855: the 'Second Wave' of clearances and the Great Highland Famine. Hendrick also took on the important post of Drost of Salland, sort of equivalent in English to a local sheriff or seneschal. discovered that the 6th Duke of Portland had feued 9 plots of land to build 9 houses on the west side of Grange Terrace in Kilmarnock. (4) He obtained an Act of Parliament to make Troon's Harbour commercial with wet . It was eventually leased to the Glasgow & There was also gas lighting in the tunnels themselves, as well as some skylights. His diplomatic career had been cut short (apparently on the verge of being named ambassador to Brazil) because of a divorce in 1948, which in those days was still too shameful for society to handle. A8083 13. email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk. An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only Again, he exceeded his orders and encouraged the locals to consider adopting a more liberal form of government, ie, not restoring the Habsburg grand dukes, and even preaching Italian unificationsomething that definitely would annoy Britains allies, Sardinia and Austria. This information will help us make improvements to the website. Following the French Revolution, the Whig Party fractured, and those who were not in favour of such rapid liberal advances shifted to support the more conservative William Pitt, led by the Duke of Portland (these became known as the Portland Faction). In 1767, the 9th Earl married Mary Bowes, the heiress of a wealthy London businessman, and the family name became hyphenated. BZ,_nN]mr10k Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. his accession to the title, William took a warm interest in them New guide apps have been introduced and Mandarin . He obtained from Parliament the right to build In her will, she gave Doorwerth to another grandson, Vice-Admiral William Bentinck (1764-1813) of Terrington St Clement, Norfolk. He was an original governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, founded in 1739, and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1741. The new Duke was named a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1717, and Governor of Jamaica in 1722, where he died in 1726. "for the improvement of Therefore the estate had By trust-disposition and settlement, dated 17th January 1871, the late Duke of Portland conveyed to trustees his whole estate in Scotland, with directions to settle, "as soon as practicable" after his death, the whole landed estate in strict entail on a certain series of heirs. Scotland is also well known for its castles. 1964) is, strictly lineally speaking, head of both English and Dutch baronial lines. Included in this gallery are grand manor houses with a lot of history too. Others were diplomats, one as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and one as ambassador to France. 3 0 obj He had been appointed a page and chamberlain in the household of Prince William as a young man, and crucially, nursed him back to health after an attack of smallpox in 1675. Due to his European family connections, he later served as an informal diplomat between Britain, Denmark and Russia and died at the court of St Petersburg in 1813. 1 0 obj A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. These include the estates of Dalkeith, Melrose, Eckford, Ettrick Forest and Kirkurd, Hassendean and Hawick, Teviotdalehead, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Westerkirk, Eskdalemuir, Liddesdale and Canonbie. By the 17th century it was known as Place House. The Countess was known as one of the grand hostesses of the era, and her daughters entered high society, where the youngest of them, Lady Elizabeth, caught the eye of the Duke of York, and married him, in 1923. Earlier, his wife Winifred had been a canopy bearer to Queen Alexandra at the 1902 coronation (wearing the famous Portland Tiara, stolen in 2018), and her Mistress of the Robes from 1913 to 1925. Our teams carefully manage complex economic, community and environmental considerations across a range of sectors, for the benefit of people . YTK87K` fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8651 privacy policy. It gave Hans Willem and his successors a seat in the local estates and house of lords of Holland. Next page: Portland Family biographies Manuscripts and Special Collections Nottingham, NG7 2NR telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8651 email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk With his death in 1990 the honour became extinct. My ancestors came from Germany to the American colonies in the 18th century and I am a proud Virginian. Campus maps | More contact information | Jobs, The Earls and Dukes of Portland of Welbeck Abbey - a Brief History, Mellish and Buchanan of Blyth and Hodsock, Thoroton Hildyard of Screveton and Flintham, Simplified family tree showing the line of descent of the Earls and Dukes of Portland, Family tree of the Bentinck family, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, [Hans] William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709), [William] Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (1682-1726), William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762), William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854), Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839; M.P. Their eldest son, Charles (whose name was William Charles, but like his father went by Charles, and in fact signed his name WCC Bentinck), not thinking he would succeed to a dukedom, entered the church and became vicar for several parishes in Bedfordshire in the 1840s. It sits within an area known as the Dukeries. especially fond of his lands and farms around Troon and to this day It took the form of The godfather of Prince William is one of the UK's largest landowners. All of the various Dutch baronial lines of the House of Bentinck were confirmed as barons de lEmpire in 1813, and when this fell, they were confirmed as barons of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Dutch noble family Bentinck is one of the oldest in the Low Countries, based mostly in the eastern part of the country, in the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. William III had created many new dukes for this reason, so it seemed natural; plus, Henry Bentinck was now even wealthier than his father, as he had married a significant heiress, Lady Elizabeth Noel, daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough and heiress of Titchfield Abbey and its estates in Hampshire. Stephenson. It is made up of several districts, including Twente in the east (where Diepenheim is located), and Salland in the west (where Schoonheten is). The Duke of Westminster. This Dutch-German branch, using the title, Count of Aldenburg-Bentinck (recognised formally by the Queen of the Netherlands in 1924), became extinct in 1968, and the headship of this branch passed to a senior line who had renounced it in the 1870s and moved to England. Styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 to 1709, He was born 17 Mar. PORTLAND; BENTINCK . One of these, Berend, moved to England in the 1830s. He was the eldest son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish. 113 Portland Road Hove BN3 5DP. Daneshill School is a unique co-educational school set within 100 . . married General Scott. She persuaded her husband to devote significant funds to improving the lives of miners on his Nottinghamshire estates. ]E$oPi65>'_dPB_R. "Fo|k But not the earldom. Welcome to our collection of the 50 best castles and manor houses in Scotland. There were heated trucks to deliver food through the tunnels. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. &>\+ Edward VI gave the crumbling ruins to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury; his son, the 7th Earl, sold it in 1590 to his half-brother, Sir Charles Cavendish (son of the celebrated Bess of Hardwick). Her mother, Lady Frances Howard, had been governess of the princesses Mary and Anne, and Anne Villiers and her sisters (and a brother) accompanied Princess Mary to The Hague after her wedding to the Prince of Orange. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. (tbk-?VF6S=X>NP $0Hsw,} X$:/hkvV William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 - 6 December 1879), styled (named) Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour. (LogOut/ The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and The familys prominence at court was maintained after his death by his second wife (Jane Temple), who was appointed governess of the daughters of the Prince of Wales (the future King George II), and by his son, the 1st Duke of Portland (below). The 11th Earl of Portland; born October 2, 1919, died January 30, 1997 THE Earl of Portland, who has died at the age of 77, was the direct descendant of the 1st Earl of Portland, a favourite. Varel had been one of the ancient seats of the independent chiefs of the Frisians in the Middle Ages and its castle was expanded into a more palatial residence once the county of Aldenburg was established. name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy Both were permitted to use the title Baron Bentinck in the United Kingdom by George V in 1911. A majority of Highland estates that changed hands last year were sold in secret, and nearly half went to absentee owners rushing to buy rural land for . The rails were cast iron fixed to The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 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