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Joint Intelligence Committee
In office
1939–1945
Preceded byRalph Stevenson
Succeeded byHarold Caccia
Personal details
Born
Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck

(1897-06-18)18 June 1897
Marylebone, London
Died30 July 1990(1990-07-30) (aged 93)
Chelsea, London
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)
Clothilde Bruce Quigley
​
​
(m. 1924; div. 1952)​

Kathleen Elsie Barry
​
​
(m. 1952)​
Children3 (see section)
Alma materWellington College

Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland

Duke of Portland, succeeding his elder brother Ferdinand. His grandson and successor as Duke was William Cavendish-Bentinck, 10th Duke of Portland, commonly known as Bill Portland, who since 2016 has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
.

Background and education

Cavendish-Bentinck was born in Marylebone, London on 18 June 1897.[1] He was the second son of Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, whose father, George Cavendish-Bentinck, was a grandson of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. Although formally Victor Cavendish-Bentinck he was known informally as Bill. Like other members of his family he informally dispensed with the name "Cavendish", being known simply as Bill Bentinck.[2] He was educated at Wellington College.

Queen Elizabeth II is also descended from the 3rd Duke of Portland through her maternal grandmother Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck. The Queen and the 9th Duke of Portland were third cousins, once removed.

Diplomatic career

Cavendish-Bentinck did not pursue a university education, declining a place at

Joint Intelligence Committee
. He managed to develop the body as a highly effective instrument of government and, as a result, became counsellor to the Services Liaison Department of the Foreign Office in 1942.

In 1945, Cavendish-Bentinck was given his first ambassadorial posting on his appointment as

USSR. Cavendish-Bentinck refused to do so, ignoring certain inhuman circumstances under which mainly old people, women and children had to suffer, by noting to his Polish hosts, he was "convinced that they will complain as usual".[4]

He held the position for two years before the Foreign Office applied to appoint him

Conservative government in 1951, under which he returned to good standing, and enjoying the protection of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had also recently gone through a divorce and would soon remarry.[citation needed
]

In 1952 he was appointed as

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order upon the occasion of the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II to France, and in that same year he was granted a three-year extension in office despite having reached the then-mandatory retirement age of sixty. He coordinated secret negotiations between the British, French and Israelis in advance of the Suez invasion at Sèvres in 1956, but being seen as "something of an Eden loyalist", in certain respects, he was sidelined by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at the Paris "big power" summit in 1960. Regardless, upon his retirement in 1960 he was made a hereditary peer as the 1st Baron Bentinck of Branksea, sitting on the Conservative
benches.

Post-diplomatic career

After his retirement from the diplomatic service, Cavendish-Bentinck, now Lord Bentinck, embarked on a business career, becoming Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Industrial Interests in

Carlyle Square, Chelsea
.

He divided his time between London and his family's

Chairman from 1977 to 1981.[5] He was also the President of the British Nuclear Industry Forum and Chairman of the board of St George's Hospital
.

In 1964 Lord Bentinck was appointed

Knight of the Order of the Garter
, the highest possible dignity in the British honours system.

Lord Bentinck also orchestrated the wedding of

Holyroodhouse. He also coordinated plans for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee
in 1977.

Later life and Duke of Portland

In 1980 he succeeded his elder brother

Permanent Lord-in-Waiting
by the Queen. His grandson would later quip that the Duke was awarded the high-ranking but comparatively obscure Royal Victorian Chain, which entitled its holders to no particular title, style, or postnominal, but is seen as a personal token of high distinction and esteem from the monarch, because "all other possible honours had already been bestowed upon him".

Upon the 9th Duke's death in 1990, the Dukedom was inherited by his grandson,

Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House
) in his honour to recognize "diplomatic excellence".

Marriages and children

Bentick married Clothilde Bruce Quigley (died 1984), an American, on 16 February 1924. She was the daughter of James Bruce Quigley.[6] They had two children together:

  • William James Cavendish-Bentinck (6 July 1925 - 4 September 1966)
  • Lady Mary Jane Cavendish-Bentinck (16 December 1929 - 1 March 2010)[dubious – discuss]

The marriage ended in divorce in 1948. Portland married secondly, Kathleen Elsie Barry (died 2004) on 27 July 1948. She was the daughter of Arthur Barry. This marriage produced one further child[disputed – discuss]:

  • Lady Barbara Cavendish-Bentinck

Styles, honours, and arms

Styles of address

  • 1897 – 1939: Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
  • 1939 – 1945: Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
    CMG
  • 1945 – 1954: Sir Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
    KCMG
  • 1954 – 1957: Sir Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
    GCMG
  • 1957 – 1960: Sir Victor Cavendish-Bentinck
    GCVO
  • 1960 – 1972: The Rt Hon The Lord Bentinck of Branksea
    GCVO
  • 1972 – 1975: The Rt Hon The Lord Bentinck of Branksea
    GCVO PC
  • 1975 – 1980: The Rt Hon The Lord Bentinck of Branksea
    GCVO PC
  • 1980 – 1990:
    GCVO PC

Honours and awards

Foreign honours

Decorations

Arms

Coat of arms of Varavour/sandbox2
Notes
The title Duke of Portland was created by
George I
in 1716 .
Coronet
A Coronet of a Duke
Crest
Out of a ducal coronet proper two arms counter-embowed vested Gules, on the hands gloves Or, each holding an ostrich feather Argent (Bentinck); A snake nowed proper (Cavendish)
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a cross moline Argent (Bentinck); 2nd and 3rd, Sable three stags' heads cabossed Argent attired Or, a crescent for difference (Cavendish)
Supporters
Two lions double queued, the dexter Or and the sinister sable
Motto
Craignez Honte (Fear Dishonour)

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Births in the Marylebone district of London Registered in July, August and September 1897 vol. 1a p. 541 — General Register Office
  2. ^ Patrick Howarth Intelligence Chief Extraordinary, First Edition, p. 13-14
  3. ISBN 9780810870284
    .
  4. ^ Memorandum H. Krajewski, Staatliches Repatriierungsamt (im Folgenden: PUR), Szczecin, 29.10.1946, MZO 196/541b, AAN. 103p} (in German)
  5. Bilderberg Group
    . Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  6. ^ The Peerage, entry for 9th Duke of Portland

External links

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Ambassador to Poland

1945–1947 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Neville Butler
Ambassador to Brazil

1947–1952 		Succeeded by
New office
Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council

1952–1954 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador to France

1954–1960 		Succeeded by
Government offices
Preceded by Chairman of the
Joint Intelligence Committee

1939–1945 		Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
1964–1984 		Succeeded by
Court offices
Preceded by
The Lord Cobbold
 Lord Chamberlain
1971–1984 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Duke of Portland
1980–1990 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Bentinck of Branksea
1960–1990 		Succeeded by

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