Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (

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Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 17503 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland the as wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. She was also a great-great-great-grandmother of

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through the queen's maternal grandmother.

Biography

Dorothy Cavendish was born on 27 August 1750 to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his wife Lady Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford.

Marriage and children

On 8 November 1766, Cavendish was married to William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. They were parents of six children: * William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (24 June 176827 March 1854) * The Right Hon. Lord Charles William Cavendish Bentinck (1 July 177024 July 1770) * Unnamed son (25 August 1771died young) * Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 177417 June 1839) * Lady Charlotte Cavendish-Bentinck (3 October 177528 July 1862). Married Charles Greville, and they had three sons:

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827. His father Charles Greville was a second cousin of the 1st Earl of Warwick, and ...

, Algernon Greville, and Henry William Greville (1801–1872), and a daughter, Harriet (1803–1870) m. Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere * Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck (13 March 17786 November 1843) * Lord Charles Bentinck (3 October 178028 April 1826). Paternal grandfather of Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne * Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (2 November 178111 February 1828) married Mary Lowther (d. 1863), daughter of William Lowther, 16 September 1820; had issue: George Cavendish-Bentinck * A stillborn baby, birthed at Burlington House on 20 October 1786. According to newspaper accounts, she was the mother of nine children, only four of whom were living at the time of her own death.

Later life

The duchess died at her home, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and was buried in St Marylebone Parish Church,

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, London. She “died of a bowel complaint, which she had been subject to for many years, and which terminated in a mortification after a short illness. It was at first suspected, from the violent inflammation in her bowels, that her Grace had eaten water-gruel out of a copper saucepan not properly tinned; but this suspicion is certainly erroneous, as it proved on examination.”Kentish Gazette, 06 June 1794, Page 4 Bentinck was a great-great-great-grandmother of

(see ancestry of Elizabeth II)

Ancestry

Arms

References

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