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Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of British-occupied India. Everyone else before him was the Governor of Bengal (Fort William). On his return to England, Bentinck served in the House of Commons for some years before being appointed Governor-General of Bengal in 1828.
Mary Capel, Countess of Essex (1679 – 20 August 1726), born Lady Mary Bentinck, was the daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William, Prince of Orange (the future King of England) and his wife Anne Villiers (died 30 November 1688).
The Dutch estate of the Bentinck family since the 16th century, Schoonheten House , is situated between the villages Heeten and Raalte in Overijssel. The area contains 5 km 2 (1.9 sq mi) of forests and cultivated land. Today the family mainly earns its living by forestry, agriculture and renting holiday houses.
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 1768 – 27 March 1854) The Right Hon. Lord Charles William Cavendish Bentinck (1 July 1770 – 24 July 1770) [1] Unnamed son (25 August 1771 – died young) [2]
Lady Mary Capell (née Bentinck), Countess of Essex, circa 1698 from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller and now in the Watford Museum. On 28 February 1692 Algernon Capell married Mary Bentinck, a daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland by his wife Anne Villiers, by whom he had three children: [3] [4]
Willem Bentinck van Rhoon; William Bentinck (priest) William Bentinck (Royal Navy officer) William George Cavendish-Bentinck; William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland; Lord William Bentinck; Will Bentinck; William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield; William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland; William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809).
William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, PC (24 June 1768 – 27 March 1854), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1809, was a British politician who served in various positions in the governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich.