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Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was the richest woman in Great Britain of her time, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785.
English: Portrait of Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), wife of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762). Date: circa 1744
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Lady Margaret Harley) (1715–1785), British aristocrat, wife of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland;
Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland; Mary Capel, Countess of Essex; Yana Mintoff; O. Lady Ottoline Morrell; P. ... Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle (1654–1734) Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle (1659–1680), first husband of Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset; Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1661–1716) Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford (1694–1755) Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715–1785)
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762), British peer; married to Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715–1785), Cavendish heiress and bluestocking William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British politician, twice Prime Minister; married to Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1750–1794)
Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland; Lady Dorothy Macmillan; E. Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire; ... Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
Cavendish was added to the family name by Bentinck's great-grandson the 3rd Duke of Portland, who married in 1766 Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the 4th Duke of Devonshire. By a family arrangement, she was the heiress to estates which had previously belonged to the defunct Newcastle branch of the Cavendish family , including Welbeck Abbey ...