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William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland KG (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716 to 1726, was a British peer and politician.
William was in his minority when he succeeded as 2nd Duke of Portland in 1726. His education had been completed largely at the hands of John Achard, a Swiss scholar who spent many years residing at the family seat of Bulstrode.
Cavendish-Bentinck, William, 6th Duke of Portland (1857 -1943) William Cavendish-Bentinck was the son of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck by his first wife Elizabeth Sophia Hawkins-Whitshed, daughter of Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 2nd Baronet.
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William Bentinck (known as Willem Bentinck in Dutch) was the first son of the second marriage of the 1st Earl of Portland. His half-brother Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland, inherited his father's English possessions. William inherited the Dutch lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht.
When William Bentinck 2nd Duke of Portland was born on 1 March 1708, in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, his father, Henry Bentinck 1st Duke of Portland, was 25 and his mother, Her Grace Elizabeth Noel, Duchess Consort of Portland, was 20.
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From July 1794 to March 1795 he commanded the 'Tremendous'. Between 1798 and 1802 Bentinck served as Governor of St Vincent and the Grenadines. In 1800, his grandmother Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentinck, died, and bequeathed him an estate at Doorwerth in The Netherlands.
