be inherited by a descendant of Henrietta's. Though Thomas married in 1667, his wife died only two years later and there were no heirs. William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland carried the family line forward, and became its most famous politician. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy for locomotive traffic with the first engine being constructed by The Duke had a close relationship with his tenants and was known to them as the 'Good' Duke . The Portland family owned the estate until a period of sales commencing in the 1790's. Hospital Song 14. A decade later, he was sent back to India, first as Governor of Bengal, 1828, then as the first Governor-General of India, 1834-35. <> d8T,@b3G~KwDtlzo3QuOMmSu=|*N1N*A 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. has been transferred to a dedicated estate office. It has a further 11,000-acre estate in the English Midlands. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 1 0 obj By the 15th century, the Bentincks were members of the Ridderschap, or noble estate, of the Veluwe, and in about 1502, divided into two main branches. Schoonheten Castle has been, and remains, the main seat of the Bentincks in the Netherlands. YTK87K` William Bentinck of Terrington became a Vice-Admiral in the British Navy and was governor of the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1798-1802. He also retained lands in England as lord of the manor of Terrington in Norfolk, not far from Kings Lynn. In 1809 the 3rd Duke The 3rd Duke was After the great re-organisations of the 1800s and 1810s there was some consolidation on Highland estates, as managers and owners hoped the crofting population would bed-down into their new lots and employment (principally fishing and the production of kelp). The same is true for the castle further to the north at Kniphausen. He stayed in the family tradition a supporter of the Whigs in government, and was named Lord Lieutenant (or viceroy) of Ireland, briefly, during the ministry of Lord Rockingham in 1782. Opening times: 1 April - 31 October 2022. The English ducal branch added the historic name Cavendish in the early 19th century, and one of its daughters, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, became the much lesser known grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. He served with William in battle in Ireland and in the Low Countries, then acted as ambassador to France, 1698, representing the Kings interests in the all-important question of the Spanish Succession. Change). In Swabia, they inherited the lordship of Gaildorf, once part of the ancient imperial County of Limpurg (northeast of Stuttgart)here they possessed an Old Schloss, built in the late 15th century, and later constructed a New Schloss, sometimes called the Bentinck Palace, which served as a summer retreat for the family until it was confiscated in 1918 (and now serves as the town hall). The Duke of Portland The honour of having the first railway in Scotland belongs to Ayrshire. Abstract. The Cavendish family, founded on Tudor wealth in the 16th century (Welbeck was of course another dissolved abbey) had been divided in the early 17th century into the Devonshire line and the Newcastle lineboth of these were dukedoms and will be explored in a separate post for the mighty Cavendish family. He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. I am a historian of monarchy and the high aristocracy of Europe. It was soon abandoned and partly demolished. Find out more about Welbeck. 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. Since the early 17th century a large part of rural South of Scotland has been owned by the Duke of Buccleuch and his ancestors. Lady Isle 3. It opened in 1812 These lands were estimated (in 2008, when the last of these grand-daughters died) as 17,000 acres in Nottinghamshire (roughly 3% of the county) and 62,000 acres in Scotland. 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. South-Western Company. In 1886, they were permitted, by royal licence, to bear the title Count Bentinck in the United Kingdom. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. 157 - Nottinghamshire Archives This record (browse from here by hierarchy) Catalogue description Portland of Welbeck (4th Deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers This record is held by. Wanlockhead, a village of about 200 people, has agreed to pay Buccleuch Estates, the duke's property company, nearly 1.5m for 3,863 acres of moorland, brownfield land and pasture, after four. the firm that sponsored the duke's Scottish Seniors Open - was hit by the housing slowdown. Bulstrude Park is located in Buckinghamshire, not far from Beaconsfield (and surprisingly close to the M40 motorway!). For a brief period there was also an alternative, Jacobite Portland title. Portland. 2 0 obj William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland (1800-1879) William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943) William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893-1977) Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1888-1980) He died in 1879, and officially left no heirs, though there were rumours of children, and one sensational lawsuit kept society enthralled in turn of the century London whereby a Mrs Druce claimed the late Duke had led a double life as an upholsterer. All Rights 2012 Future Museum Project Partners, Plan and Section of Rail and Chair used on Kilmarnock and Troon Railway. g8Ji CJ3$oe8xb+U]M4$%$%r Titchfield Abbey had been founded by Premonstratensian monks in the 1220s, and was a frequent resting point for royalty travelling between London and Winchesteras well as the site of a royal wedding in 1445, between Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. The Portland family took over the property in the 1730s, but by the late 19th century rarely lived there, and in 1945, the 7th Duke gave it to the nation. D2&GNwy9QblaKllbL*A 6-wn(5] It was acquired in the mid-17th century by Anton I, Count of Aldenburg (1633-1680), whose main estate was the fiefdom of Varel and Kniphausen in modern-day northern Germany. The Duchess, Margaret Harley, was better known than her husband, as a prominent bluestocking (the name for a circle of women intellectuals in this period) famous for her botanical gardens and her museum at Bulstrode, noted above. The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and Enjoy. 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. At long last we can finally share our new version of issue 8: Duke and Disorderly which tells the story of a posh duke with a very long name: William John Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 - 6 December 1879). The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and Stephenson. It was enlarged again in the late 18th century with the addition of an English-style garden. He was noted for This was later rescinded in 1932. 1825-1855: the 'Second Wave' of clearances and the Great Highland Famine. Only the garden centre and a newly built art gallery is open to the public. The Castle, fortified even before the Norman conquest, is located near Morpeth in Northumberland (north of the city of Newcastle). Like Titchfield Abbey it was also built by Premonstratensians, in about 1140and by the 16th century it was the head of this Order of monks. Much further to the north, Bothal Castle was part of the Ogle succession that had fallen to the Cavendishes by marriage in the 1590s. I teach history at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England, and am the senior editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. 113 Portland Road Hove BN3 5DP. Monarchs were entertained there, as were eminent authors and poets. It was acquired in the late 17th century by the Van Keppel family (interestingly, rivals of the Bentincks in England), and today serves as a conference centre for the regional police service. The honour of having the first railway in Scotland belongs After 1997 he was entitled to call himself 12th Earl of Portland, as well as Count Bentinck von Aldenburg and Count of Waldeck-Limpurg. In 1980, he was succeeded by his brother Victor, who was also in his 80s. Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove. Scotland: Contribution unclear and date unknown (Michael C Davis writes that the practice 'seems to have been involved in the project in some way) 1913: Estate work for the Duke of Portland : Scotland: Various works, as architect and surveyor on the Duke of Portland's Scottish estates: 1923: Nurses' home, Barassie Street: Troon: Ayrshire . He died in Paris only a few years later. The Duke of Portland by The Duke of Portland, released 28 April 2020 1. for locomotive traffic with the first engine being constructed by Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th (Peerage of Scotland) and 6th (Peerage of UK) Duke of Argyll holds so many ancestral titles and historic offices that it sometimes becomes confusing to know what they could all possibly mean in the 21st century. After that, the house and lands passed to her nephew, the Prince of Castel Viscardo (which is in Umbria). He was Lord President of the Council, 1801-1805, then a few years later (1807) took up the mantle once more of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, again as a figurehead leader of a coalition of Pittites (Canning, Castlereagh, Perceval, etc). x\[sF~wCeupTd2T}h(Z~!X$Ows{V\'~eI"E"h^}}xvw{i (iK?pThqG2Wbqy>>}i=z?A.xr"_P$>#8n^ez^.m|Z5?X}raK?0/h>mXfHDDis>PVw vx*K8"O}In9\JHxYHr_'e^^uRTMR2FGxZ|& Ap)of`\dN-$CS=qbb@DEro@P(IfR^G#("/6[=l F4sp.mI.]4>ZCY$aDF' dN @M>i(G!0Mn-I?H/30|@&z~ ^| The eldest, Lady Anne, never married and lived at Welbeck Abbey and managed its vast estates until her death in 2008. 1807. Last modified on Tue 12 Apr 2022 03.51 EDT. many of the street names bear witness to his investment in the town An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only The younger branch added to their aristocratic lustre first in the Netherlands by incorporating the succession of the Reede-Ginckel family, earls of Athlone (created in 1692 for another one of William IIIs generals, Godert van Ginckel van Reede; extinct 1844) by inheritance in the 1840s; then by gaining the lands of the counts of Limpurg-Gaildorf by marriage in the 1860s. Much of the oldest parts burned in 1900 and were rebuilt. Hijack the Ferry 11. The Harleys were a Herefordshire gentry family. Family members include the 5th Duke of Portland, the famous 'burrowing duke.' The 5th Duke spent his time and wealth at Welbeck, commissioning an impressive range of buildings which included a maze of underground tunnels. This province, which for centuries was not independent, but property of the bishops of Utrecht, takes its name from the fact that it is across the River IJssel. The 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry is Richard Scott, who, along with his family, is Britain's largest private landowner. What is less well known, is that one of the most famous society patrons of the arts and bohemians of the early 20th century, Lady Ottoline Morrell, was Cecilias first cousin. We need now to travel back to the Netherlands, and back to the 18th century. On his death in 1711 the Clare estates and a portion of the Cavendish estates passed to his nephew, Thomas Pelham, created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, but the bulk of the Cavendish lands, together with the manor of Marylebone (Middlesex) and Wimpole (Cambridgeshire) passed to his daughter Henrietta, who married Edward Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford. Best Price (Room Rates) Guarantee Check all reviews, photos, contact number & address of Duke of Portland Boathouse on the shore of Lake . 1 bedroom flat for rent in Duke Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1AG, BN1 for 1,025 pcm. This rather marvellous castle has been the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyll, Chiefs of the Clan Campbell, for many generations. Shortly after this first wife (called Georgiana Seymour) died, Lord Charles eloped with his friend Sir William Abdys wife; they divorced; and Charles and Anne (herself an illegitimate daughter of the Marquess of Wellesley, the Duke of Wellingtons brother) married. Just like the Dukes, you won't want to leave! She had died in 1945. 'Welbeck, Nottinghamshire', by T. Malton, published 1788. Sutherland Estates. At the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimers death, Brampton Bryan passed to a collateral branch of his family, but I think (and happy to be corrected) that the Wigmore estate came to the Bentincks. Hendrick Bentinck rebuilt and enlarged it in the 1630s. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Her many friends and lovers included Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, Dora Carrington, DH Lawrence (who may have modelled his Lady Chatterley on her), Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, and on and on. Rhoon Castle was built on a sandbank in about 1200, then rebuilt in the 1420s. his estates", and construction started in 1808. Trying to Cross the Road in Mauchline 8. Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. There are other Bentinck lines in England: another younger son returned to England in the 18th century to manage the estates at Terrington in Norfolk. View more posts. 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. endobj Since 2010, Buccleuch Estates has sold or agreed to sell more than 41,000 acres of land in Scotland, leaving it with 186,500 acres. The Bentinck family vault was established in the parish church of Marylebone, first in a new church built in the 1740s, at the northern end of Marylebone High Street (demolished in 1949), and then in a newer church built by celebrated architect Thomas Hardwick in about 1815. many of the street names bear witness to his investment in the town with the carriages being drawn by horses. In this short time, he managed to modernise the government administration of Bengal and abolish the monopoly of trade enjoyed the East India Company. Portland. The Grosvenor Estate comprises some 140,000 acres of land across Scotland and England (or perhaps very slightly less: 133,000 acres according to this recent Daily Mail article). 1812. He resigned in 1809 due to ill health and died soon after. Simplified family tree showing the line of descent of the Earls and Dukes of Portland(click to open in PDF format), Family tree of the Bentinck family, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire (click to open in PDF format), Biographies of the Earls and Dukes of Portland, Kings Meadow CampusLenton Lane The rails were cast iron fixed to In 1767, the 9th Earl married Mary Bowes, the heiress of a wealthy London businessman, and the family name became hyphenated. The rugged landscape of the Queensberry Estate is the ideal location for windfarms and Buccleuch have helped facilitate these in the local area, including the two turbines now owned by the community group Propel.In addition, the former opencast mine site at Glenmuckloch has potential for a pumped storage hydro system. 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). South-Western Company. Others were diplomats, one as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and one as ambassador to France. One of his estates, Queensberry, includes the Lowther Hills and covers over 33,500 hectares. And theres more: the senior line of Bentinck van Diepenheim and Schoonheten were also confirmed as barons of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814, but they had already sold the castle of Diepenheim in 1813 (today the private estate of the De Vos van Steenwijk familycousins and neighbours of the Bentincks since the 15th century). After a legal case at The Hague in 1781, Charlotte Sophie was confirmed as Doorwerth's owner. Tommy 4. His subsidiary titles created in 1716 included Marquess of Titchfield, to be used for the heir. One of Hendricks grandsons, Eusebius, carried on the branch of Diepenheim and Schoonheten in the province of Overijssel, and we will return to them later on; a younger son, Hans Willem (1649-1709), became a favourite and protg of William III, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. He lives in Aberdeenshire. There were heated trucks to deliver food through the tunnels. The titles, but not the lands, went to a distant cousin, Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, who became the 8th Duke at age 89 in 1977. But by this point, Portland had been supplanted as the Kings favourite by another Dutchman, Arnold van Keppel, and he resigned his court offices in 1699, and he mostly retired to his country estate at Bulstrode Park, though he did continue to carry out duties in the next reign, that of Queen Anne. 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. The Theobalds Estate on the Hertfordshire-Middlesex border was another acquisition of Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. Campus maps | More contact information | Jobs, Earls and Dukes of Portland: Family Seats, Mellish and Buchanan of Blyth and Hodsock, Thoroton Hildyard of Screveton and Flintham. In the mid-18th century, following the breakdown of Charlotte Sophie's marriage to William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck (1704-1774), the ownership of Doorwerth was claimed by her eldest son and grandson. Records kept by the Estate are therefore a valuable source for family history. his accession to the title, William took a warm interest in them Charlotte Sophie inherited them and ruled as a semi-independent princess in 1738, but as her marriage broke down due to adultery, and her private life became too scandalous for Dutch society, she was divorced from Bentinck in 1744, and deposed by her former husband in 1748, who then ruled the county of Aldenburg in the name of his sons. There was also gas lighting in the tunnels themselves, as well as some skylights. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by Made up of 133,100 acres across the UK, the Duke of. This alternative title died with him in 1698. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, between 1808 and 1812. Their intense friendship deepened from then, though the jury is still out over whether this developed into a sexual relationship. The Duke's estates in Scotland include Langwell Lodge, which the family has frequently visited for deer-stalking and grouse-shooting in the autumn. In 1814, his superiors, supporting a full Bourbon restoration, sent him away from Sicily, north towards Tuscany where he was tasked with pushing out another of Napoleons sisters (Elisa) from her rule there. It took the form of stream William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, between 1808 and We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. One of Scotland's largest landowners, the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, is to sell nearly 9,000 acres of their rolling Borders Estate for more than 19 million. Moved Permanently. ]N>|0._L"'s,|{}yA^6}2;J,S,tJ/q8OF9:4SjbII mG0FFV-ZBQ]H!8lP 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. With his death in 1990 the honour became extinct. It is still a residence of the Bentinck family, though not open to the public. 'Bulstrode Hall, Buckinghamshire', by Corbould, published 1787. The year 1688-1689 has been called by historians the Anglo-Dutch Moment, as the year when the ideas of English and Dutch limited monarchy came together in the person of William, Prince of Orange: King William III. It passed into parliament hands following the execution of Charles I, and the palace, which had fallen into disrepair, was demolished. Ferdinand spent a long career as a senior colonial official in East Africa, mostly in Kenya, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Welbeck estate offers an inspiring environment in which to work, live and stay, with a thriving artisan food community, residential property and commercial lettings, all within a beautiful rural setting. The local town retains a memory of its long British connections, with a pub named the Duke of Portland. between Kilmarnock and Troon. 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. Today Gary Ramsay Bentinck (b. Lord Clare was created Duke of Newcastle in 1694. He became a famous recluse, retreating to Welbeck Abbey where he spent years constructing the most elaborate tunnel systemthought to be about 15 miles in totalconnecting various parts of the house and the estate. stone blocks and the whole thing cost 50, 000. The two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. The children of the Dukes of Portland, and those granted the rank of Duke's children, bore the title Lord/Lady before their Christian names.. Hans Willem Bentinck, cr 1689 Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock and Baron of Cirencester (20 Jul 1649-Bulstrode . The estate of Langwell is in the parish of Latheron. It took the form of Duke sets sights on estate expansion - Monday interview: Duke of Roxburghe. The younger sons, Lord George and Lord Henry both became fairly influential members of the newly founded Conservative Party in the 1840s. The Kilmarnock Estate inheritance passed to Henrietta's daughters, her direct descendants. 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