Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland
Governor of Jamaica | |
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In office 1721–1726 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 17 March 1682 |
Died | 4 July 1726 George | (aged 44)
Parent(s) | William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland Anne Villiers |
Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (17 March 1682 – 4 July 1726) was a
English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 1709 when he succeeded to the peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Portland
.
Early life
Bentinck was the second, but eldest surviving, son of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and his wife Anne née Villiers. His mother was from the Villiers family, the eldest daughter of Sir Edward Villiers and sister of Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey. From 1702 to 1703, Bentinck did the
Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough and Catherine Greville at Chiswick, an heiress with a fortune of £60,000, who brought him the estate of Titchfield in Hampshire.[1]
Career
At the
baroque opera on stage.[2]
He was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber in 1717 and held the post for the rest of hislife.
Portland lost vast sums of money in the
Governor of Jamaica,[1] which was a lucrative but not a very prestigious post, and one with a low survival rate. There, he acquired ownership of 287 slaves, 158 of whom were male and 129 females.[3]
Death and legacy
Portland died in Jamaica at
Dukes of Ormond located in the King Henry VII Chapel. Portland and his wife had three sons and seven daughters,[1]
who included
- William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, later Marquess of Titchfield, later 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762)
- Lord George(1715–1759), soldier
- Lady Anne (d. 1749), married Col. Daniel Paul
- Lady Amelia Catharina (d. 1756), married Jacob van Wassenaer, Heer van Hazerswoude-Waddingsveen
- Lady Isabella (d. 1783), married Henry Monck, uncle of Charles Monck, 1st Viscount Monck; their daughter Elizabeth married the 1st Marquess of Waterford.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d "BENTINCK, Henry, Visct. Woodstock (c.1682-1726), of Titchfield, Hants". History of Parliament Online.
- ^ a b "Biography of [William] Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (1682–1726)". University of Nottingham.
- ^ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery".
- ^ Chester, Joseph (1876). The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. London. p. 319.
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