William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, ( born April 14, 1738 in Nottinghamshire, † October 30, 1809 in Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire ) was a British politician of the Whigs and the Tories and the Prime Minister. 1762 Before he led the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield.
Cavendish Bentinck, eldest son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church College, Oxford University. 1761, he was elected to the House of Commons. A year later he moved into the House of Lords, after he had succeeded his father as Duke of Portland. He was the aristocratic Whig Party by Charles Watson- Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, near. He served in the first government (1765-1766) as Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and then, in Rockingham 's second term ( April-August, 1782), as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. After Rockingham's death, he was 2nd Earl of Shelburne, no longer reign of William Petty, because he was a follower of Charles James Fox.
In April 1783 Cavendish Bentinck came as the nominal head of a coalition government in the spotlight. However, their true leaders were James Fox and Lord North. He was a member of that government as a Lord of the Treasury, until they broke up in December of the same year.
Like many other conservative Whigs ( among them Edmund Burke) Duke felt a deep unease about the French Revolution. He fell out with Fox because of this problem and joined Pitt's government in 1794 as Minister of the Interior on. He was a member of the Cabinet up to Pitt's death in 1806 - from 1801 to 1805 as Lord President of the Council, then as Minister without Portfolio.
As Pitt's followers came after the fall of the "Government of all the talents " in March 1807 returned to power, Cavendish - Bentinck was again an acceptable figurehead for a quarrelsome group of ministers such as George Canning, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Hawkesbury and Spencer Perceval.
Cavendish Bentinck's second government experienced the complete isolation of the United Kingdom from the continent ( continental blockade ), but also the beginning of the recovery, as the Spanish War of Independence began. In the fall of 1809 the Duke resigned because of his poor health and because of the scandalous duel between Canning and Castlereagh. Shortly thereafter, he died.
The Portland Vase is named after him because they temporarily belonged to him and his family.
Family
Cavendish Bentinck married in 1766 Dorothy Cavendish ( 1750-1794 ), a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. The couple had the following children:
- William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland ( 1768-1854 )
- Charlotte (1773-1862) ∞ 1793 Charles Greville
- William Henry (1774-1839)
- William Charles (1780-1826) ∞ 1 1808 Georgiana Seymour, 2nd 1816 Anne Wellesley
- Frederick (1781-1828) ∞ 1820 Mary Lowther