Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland

The Duchess of Portland
Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
by George Romney
Tenure 8 November 1766 – 3 June 1794
Born (1750-08-27)27 August 1750
Died 3 June 1794(1794-06-03) (aged 43)
London, England
Buried St Marylebone Parish Church
Spouse(s)
Issue
Father William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Mother Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
Memorial to the 3rd Duke of Portland and his family at the family vault in St Marylebone Parish Church

Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 1750 – 3 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland as wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. She is also a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II 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:

According to newspaper accounts, she was the mother of nine children, only four of whom were living at the time of her own death.

The duchess died at her home, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and was buried in St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, 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.”[4]

Bentinck is a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II (see ancestry of Elizabeth II)

Titles and styles

  • 27 August 1750 – 8 November 1766: The Lady Dorothy Cavendish
  • 8 November 1766 – 3 June 1794: Her Grace The Duchess of Portland

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ The Scots Magazine, Volume 32 for birth and Oxford Journal 28 July 1770 Page 2 for death
  2. ↑ Newcastle Chronicle, 07 September 1771, Page 1
  3. ↑ Caledonian Mercury 28 October 1786 Page 2
  4. ↑ Kentish Gazette, 06 June 1794, Page 4
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Countess of Shelburne		 Spouse of the Prime Minister of Great Britain
1783		 Vacant
Title next held by
Ursula Addington
as Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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