mP}O'x6(L'~&Pu)!j?QtlO=r+q twQ(8-Lq O@Buk#J=F!5(GLIm5neRpBS%9 ]GM#M9.F> #s%qS1kl;X>+ Ue>1!#IAMJ^/I[XDl>[9zgE |g!GE But at the Congress of Vienna, 1815, the Count of Aldenburg was denied a restoration of his sovereignty (however miniscule) and became a vassal of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Doorwerth was a small estate near Arnhem in the province of Gelderland, The Netherlands. After the Second World War, Welbeck was leased by the Portlands to the Ministry of Defence and was used as an army training college until 2005. Het Loo, for example, has been a hunting lodge for the princely (then royal) House of Orange for centuries. He obtained from Parliament the right to build noble family from Holland. Welbeck passed down through the Cavendishes into the Portland line of descent, and ultimately became the main seat of the Dukes of Portland. In 1886, they were permitted, by royal licence, to bear the title Count Bentinck in the United Kingdom. In 1809 the 3rd Duke The duke's 96,000 acre estate say it costs between 20,000 and 30,000-a-year to maintain the lodge. It was acquired in the mid-17th century by Anton I, Count of Aldenburg (1633-1680), whose main estate was the fiefdom of Varel and Kniphausen in modern-day northern Germany. William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland, had a more traditional aristocratic history: Master of the Horse under Conservative governments in the 1880s-90s, a Privy Councillor, and long-standing Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (from 1898-1939). He was recalled to Britain but surprisingly went unpunished. Change). 1682, at the Hague, died in Jamaica, 4 July 1726, and was buried 3 Nov. 1726 in the Duke of Ormonde's vault in Westminster Abbey. For a brief period there was also an alternative, Jacobite Portland title. Ferdinand spent a long career as a senior colonial official in East Africa, mostly in Kenya, from the 1920s to the 1950s. William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland PC (24 June 1768 - 27 March 1854) was a British politician who served in various positions in the governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich. He was the eldest son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish. It gets this name from the four historic neighbouring ducal seats - Welbeck, Clumber, Thoresby, and Worksop Manor. I teach history at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England, and am the senior editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. Since 2010, Buccleuch Estates has sold or agreed to sell more than 41,000 acres of land in Scotland, leaving it with 186,500 acres. The Portland family took over the property in the 1730s, but by the late 19th century rarely lived there, and in 1945, the 7th Duke gave it to the nation. Its territory was sandy and marshy and full of woods and heath, so was often a preferred hunting ground for Dutch nobles. The Bentincks did not hold on to it very long and sold it in the 1740s. William of Orange, and had been created Earl of Portland in 1689. Kings Meadow CampusLenton Lane A majority of Highland estates that changed hands last year were sold in secret, and nearly half went to absentee owners rushing to buy rural land for . The familys prominence at court was maintained after his death by his second wife (Jane Temple), who was appointed governess of the daughters of the Prince of Wales (the future King George II), and by his son, the 1st Duke of Portland (below). But the Duke did not entertain. Via Grosvenor Estates, the 62-year-old Duke is the richest property developer in the UK. Last modified on Tue 12 Apr 2022 03.51 EDT. I wanted this story changed for two reasons: Firstly, the original narrative was over crammed with information which made it difficult for our . Great Estates of Scotland This stunning series takes an in-depth look at the fascinating stories and inner workings of four of Scotland's most magnificent country estates, through the eyes of not only the current owners and the ghillies, gardeners, and housekeepers that keep them running, but also from the viewpoint of the paying guests who frequent these sumptuous country estates. f0vi~e. lc&Rmjl @. The tunnels connected the main house to the kitchen gardens, stables and a large riding houseequipped with gas lighting! It was inherited by Henry Noel Bentinck, as 11th Earl of Portland. The Duchess was also an early animal rights activist and vegetarian. The estate of Langwell is in the parish of Latheron. Moved Permanently. She certainly has a colourful background in her grandmother and great-grandmother; and, via the Prince of Wales (King George IV) maybe even a drop of royal blood! We can continue to have our Anglo-Dutch Moment. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. I am also a musician and an avid traveler. William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, KG, GCVO, TD, PC, DL (28 December 1857 - 26 April 1943), known as William Cavendish-Bentinck until 1879, was a British landowner, courtier, and Conservative politician. Campus maps | More contact information | Jobs, Earls and Dukes of Portland: Family Seats, Mellish and Buchanan of Blyth and Hodsock, Thoroton Hildyard of Screveton and Flintham. He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. Marketed by Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove . He inherited the Kilmarnock estate in 1795 when he married N]t([rEKe0X_!kYPvw^({PoHE2ZF"G";$gF#j'dRF?2&3I!Dh4>q9Sopf5tZj"' k(,.rh{t_/ his personal interest and knowledge in agriculture and was and its surrounding countryside. They are not a van family since theres no place or castle with that name; instead the surname derives as a sort of patronymic from a probable early founder named Bento. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 He contested this, and in 1818 was allowed a limited degree of sovereignty in Kniphausen and Varel, mostly concerning internal administration and external trade. Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove. The rails were cast iron fixed to Hans Willem, Lord of Rhoons connections to England started earlier than the Anglo-Dutch Moment of 1688-89. One of Hendricks grandsons, Eusebius, carried on the branch of Diepenheim and Schoonheten in the province of Overijssel, and we will return to them later on; a younger son, Hans Willem (1649-1709), became a favourite and protg of William III, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. The two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. The 2nd Duke and Duchess of Portland were thus astronomically wealthy (though as per normal with the English aristocracy, their land holdings had very little to do with the actual place Portland, in Dorset). In 2005 it returned to use as a private residence by the heirs of the last duke of Portland, the Anglo-Italian William Parente, Prince of Castel Viscardo. Again, he exceeded his orders and encouraged the locals to consider adopting a more liberal form of government, ie, not restoring the Habsburg grand dukes, and even preaching Italian unificationsomething that definitely would annoy Britains allies, Sardinia and Austria. Hendrick also took on the important post of Drost of Salland, sort of equivalent in English to a local sheriff or seneschal. Made up of 133,100 acres across the UK, the Duke of. 1807. But he was pushed out of politics in the next reign due to his personal animosity with Princess Anne of Great Britain, now Dowager Princess of Orange and Regent for her son, Willem V. In 1732, William Bentinck van Rhoon had been created Count of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Charles VI, to raise his rank so that it would be equal to his future bride, Countess Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg. Bulstrude Park is located in Buckinghamshire, not far from Beaconsfield (and surprisingly close to the M40 motorway!). Part of the reason for selling the Titchfield estate was the acquisition in the 1730s of a much more extensive portfolio by the 2nd Duke of Portland. It has a further 11,000-acre estate in the English Midlands. These lands were estimated (in 2008, when the last of these grand-daughters died) as 17,000 acres in Nottinghamshire (roughly 3% of the county) and 62,000 acres in Scotland. The estate was granted to the Montagu family in 1540 by King Henry VIII, having remained in the family until it came under royal ownership from 1938. The illegitimate son of the last Count of Oldenburg was given two Frisian lordships, Kniphausen and Varel, both on the North Sea coast on an inlet in the mouth of Weser, on either side of the future port city of Wilhelmshaven (not founded until 1869). 1 0 obj The Glorious Twelfth, which heralds the start of the country's grouse shooting season, has been cancelled at the late Duke's Abbeystead estate, as a mark of respect. These include the estates of Dalkeith, Melrose, Eckford, Ettrick Forest and Kirkurd, Hassendean and Hawick, Teviotdalehead, Eskdale, Ewesdale, Westerkirk, Eskdalemuir, Liddesdale and Canonbie. The title Earl of Portland did not die out with the dukedom, however. It was in time adapted Like Welbeck, the manor and castle of Bolsover were purchased by Sir Charles Cavendish from Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury in 1608. He and his wife remained in Nairobi, even after he became duke, as there were no lands to inherit in England. Welbeck is one of the great traditional landed estates, nestled within Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. With planning . From that point onwards, the Dukedom descended in an unbroken line as far as William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland. In Victorian times, the Duke of Portland dammed the river to make the lake - and prevent the railway being built through the centre of the gorge. Hospital Song 14. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In 1677, he was sent to England to formally ask for the hand of Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke of York (and his first cousin), and a year later Hans Willem himself married an English woman, Anne Villiers, a cousin of the Kings favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. Our teams carefully manage complex economic, community and environmental considerations across a range of sectors, for the benefit of people . I love heraldry and genealogy. The Duke of Newcastle was incredibly interested in the equestrian arts, and it has been exciting to see English Heritage restoring and recreating his horse riding school at Bolsover in the past two decades. Campus maps | More contact information | Jobs, The Earls and Dukes of Portland of Welbeck Abbey - a Brief History, Mellish and Buchanan of Blyth and Hodsock, Thoroton Hildyard of Screveton and Flintham, Simplified family tree showing the line of descent of the Earls and Dukes of Portland, Family tree of the Bentinck family, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, [Hans] William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709), [William] Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (1682-1726), William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762), William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738-1809), William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768-1854), Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839; M.P. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only The 10th Duke of Roxburghe has died at the age of 64 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family has announced. There was also gas lighting in the tunnels themselves, as well as some skylights. g8Ji CJ3$oe8xb+U]M4$%$%r All of the various Dutch baronial lines of the House of Bentinck were confirmed as barons de lEmpire in 1813, and when this fell, they were confirmed as barons of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands. Barnwell Manor is an eighteenth-century manor house, and former residence of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, located near the village of Barnwell in Northamptonshire. On his death the title passed to Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, the 12th Earl who is likely to be succeeded by his son, William, the present Viscount Woodstock. Wanlockhead, a village of about 200 people, has agreed to pay Buccleuch Estates, the duke's property company, nearly 1.5m for 3,863 acres of moorland, brownfield land and pasture, after four. Hijack the Ferry 11. HENRY BENTINCK, Earl of Portland till 6 July 1716, when he was created Marquess of Titchfield and DUKE OF PORTLAND. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by Buccleuch Estate Records. The last British dukedom to become extinct was the title of Duke of Portland in 1990. This four-part series takes an in-depth look at the workings of some of Scotland's most magnificent country estates through the eyes of the current owners, the ghillies, the gardeners and the. Edward VI gave the crumbling ruins to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury; his son, the 7th Earl, sold it in 1590 to his half-brother, Sir Charles Cavendish (son of the celebrated Bess of Hardwick). especially fond of his lands and farms around Troon and to this day name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy with the carriages being drawn by horses. His son, Viscount Woodstock, later 2nd Earl and from 1716 1st Duke of Portland, married in 1704 a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough, through whom came a moiety of the Titchfield (Hampshire) estates formerly belonging to the Wriothesley Earls of Southampton. His daughter Henrietta Holles did, however, inherit the manor of Marylebone, then on the outskirts of London, and today reflecting past ownership in the names of its streets: Harley Street, Oxford Street, Henrietta Street, Wimpole Street, Wigmore Street (and Wigmore Hall); as well as Cavendish Square, Great Portland Street and so on. 23 June 2015 5:35pm. Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was originally built in 1686 by Judge Jefferies. Scotland: Contribution unclear and date unknown (Michael C Davis writes that the practice 'seems to have been involved in the project in some way) 1913: Estate work for the Duke of Portland : Scotland: Various works, as architect and surveyor on the Duke of Portland's Scottish estates: 1923: Nurses' home, Barassie Street: Troon: Ayrshire . [1] The oldest six titles - created between 1337 and 1386 - were Duke of Cornwall (1337), Duke of Lancaster (1351), Duke of Clarence (1362), Duke of York (1385), Duke of Gloucester (1385), and Duke of Ireland (1386). The Duke of Sutherland, one of the wealthiest landowners in Scotland, faced straitened times after the First World War. S1 E4 - 55m 25s. Their eldest son, Charles (whose name was William Charles, but like his father went by Charles, and in fact signed his name WCC Bentinck), not thinking he would succeed to a dukedom, entered the church and became vicar for several parishes in Bedfordshire in the 1840s. His residence, Huis t Velde, was an old moated manor house rebuilt by the Bentincks, located east of Warnsveld in another region of Gelderland, Zutphen. The Portland Estate in Soho Fields In 1698 the first Earl of Portland was granted by the King the freehold of most of Soho Fields and of a smaller piece of ground in St. James's parish, in reversion from 1734. It is made up of several districts, including Twente in the east (where Diepenheim is located), and Salland in the west (where Schoonheten is). the first railway in Scotland"for the improvement of The new Duke was named a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1717, and Governor of Jamaica in 1722, where he died in 1726. In 1814, his superiors, supporting a full Bourbon restoration, sent him away from Sicily, north towards Tuscany where he was tasked with pushing out another of Napoleons sisters (Elisa) from her rule there. Earlier, his wife Winifred had been a canopy bearer to Queen Alexandra at the 1902 coronation (wearing the famous Portland Tiara, stolen in 2018), and her Mistress of the Robes from 1913 to 1925. Theres no danger of this family becoming extinct any time soon, always maintaining a foot in England and a foot in the Netherlands. I focus primarily as an academic on the early modern period and France, but my interests range from early medieval Ireland to 20th-century Russia. The family have been based in Inveraray since the early 15th century. The dukedom became extinct in 1990, but not the earldom, which, by the terms of its creation passed to a collateral branch which had continued to reside in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. to Ayrshire. Portland was the son of Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland and his wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. It was the Cavendish succession in the north of England that was the most significant, and caused the family to take on the double-barrelled surname Cavendish-Bentinck by the end of the century. The Bentinck family vault was established in the parish church of Marylebone, first in a new church built in the 1740s, at the northern end of Marylebone High Street (demolished in 1949), and then in a newer church built by celebrated architect Thomas Hardwick in about 1815. Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only Welbeck estate offers an inspiring environment in which to work, live and stay, with a thriving artisan food community, residential property and commercial lettings, all within a beautiful rural setting. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 594.96 842.04] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> THE SUTHERLANDS OF LANGWELL. A8083 13. Boutique, family run Estate Agents specialising in Sales, Lettings & Management based in Brighton and Hove. Out in Style Bentinck would later deliver important messages from William to his uncle (and now father-in-law) King James in the 1680s, and was key in organising ships and funds for William to mount his invasion of Britain in November 1688. discovered that the 6th Duke of Portland had feued 9 plots of land to build 9 houses on the west side of Grange Terrace in Kilmarnock. South-Western Company. He was Lord President of the Council, 1801-1805, then a few years later (1807) took up the mantle once more of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, again as a figurehead leader of a coalition of Pittites (Canning, Castlereagh, Perceval, etc). BO&lfLYAqhF? w]I11q=)>6z;0F lzb@/W +~:ZXu{I>Q5m *kS9TF)D\>~]oQ,Kmrv6L={FXxB7zs(&X0(q53K&z)1S0<1/7t6E].5~\r\Y!h=98`A %[SEeS[74r1_`(F~=R\#fs5:ny`B` 5_ge_Mmx[ u;#ymA2K=d a^i)tUX"cpCBV!a~cX{>X0\2SqgR5lKAWWQ$|5x"mLUU%,]Ndz0-m~|2='[1a2 dEq6c]%UD3,Ph William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, between 1808 and 1851 - 1852 - Alexander Woodburn, Count Henry Noel served in the British army in World War II, then became a producer for the BBC. In 1538, the monastery was dissolved and given by the Crown to Richard Walley of Screveton, and was later purchased (1599) by the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and resold in 1607 to his half-brother Charles Cavendish. Fascinating. It was sold by his heirs to Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, who made it one of his principal residences, and indeed died there in 1709. The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The younger sons, Lord George and Lord Henry both became fairly influential members of the newly founded Conservative Party in the 1840s. Hendrick Bentinck t Veldes sons and grandsons married heiresses and founded several different branches that co-existed well into the 19th century (though interestingly some of them remained Catholic after the Reformation while others firmly embraced Calvinism). The English ducal branch added the historic name Cavendish in the early 19th century, and one of its daughters, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, became the much lesser known grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. It was thus a Cavendish-Holles-Harley heiress who became the 2nd Duchess of Portland. x\[sF~wCeupTd2T}h(Z~!X$Ows{V\'~eI"E"h^}}xvw{i (iK?pThqG2Wbqy>>}i=z?A.xr"_P$>#8n^ez^.m|Z5?X}raK?0/h>mXfHDDis>PVw vx*K8"O}In9\JHxYHr_'e^^uRTMR2FGxZ|& Ap)of`\dN-$CS=qbb@DEro@P(IfR^G#("/6[=l F4sp.mI.]4>ZCY$aDF' dN @M>i(G!0Mn-I?H/30|@&z~ ^| The 3rd Duke of Fife, who has died aged 85, inherited fortunes, titles and estates in Scotland from both sides of his . He died in Paris only a few years later. Read More 4th Duke of Portland Past Legacies Exhibition at Troon Library Troon's icon of industry: the first railway locomotive in Scotland This is the third (and final) post to be themed around the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway, completed in 1812. Their father, Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, had scandalised society first by marrying an illegitimate daughter of the famous courtesan Grace Elliottwhose high profile lovers included the Duke of Orlans and the Prince of Wales who may indeed have been the father of Lord Charless wife. Sir Charles Cavendish, third son of Sir William Cavendish of Chatsworth (Derbyshire), acquired Welbeck (Nottinghamshire) in 1598 and Bolsover (Derbyshire) in 1608, both from the Talbot family. Titchfield Abbey had been founded by Premonstratensian monks in the 1220s, and was a frequent resting point for royalty travelling between London and Winchesteras well as the site of a royal wedding in 1445, between Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. Both are located on a sandy island in the delta of the River Mass, just south of the city of Rotterdam. Abstract. It passed into parliament hands following the execution of Charles I, and the palace, which had fallen into disrepair, was demolished. After the great re-organisations of the 1800s and 1810s there was some consolidation on Highland estates, as managers and owners hoped the crofting population would bed-down into their new lots and employment (principally fishing and the production of kelp). The rest of this story is well known. The King of Self Pity 7. <> My ancestors came from Germany to the American colonies in the 18th century and I am a proud Virginian. Timothy Bentinck had already established himself as an actor, notably on the radio as one of the lead characters on The Archers. At the 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimers death, Brampton Bryan passed to a collateral branch of his family, but I think (and happy to be corrected) that the Wigmore estate came to the Bentincks. has been transferred to a dedicated estate office. This double windfall of two generations of heiresses brought two major new properties from the Cavendish family, in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey. He resigned in 1809 due to ill health and died soon after. 6ORN){] Gw2S8h1f1 >l*RqA*Q59@}$K;hl4}CT/i]XCQ$\ his estates", and construction started in 1808. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 1812. The Countess was the heiress of an Imperial county formed in the late 17th century out of fragments of the ancient county of Oldenburg (of which Aldenburg was an older variant spelling), which had passed into possession of the House of Denmark on the extinction of its legitimate male line. 'Welbeck, Nottinghamshire', by T. Malton, published 1788. The godfather of Prince William is one of the UK's largest landowners. The estate passed to William's son, Charles A. Bentinck (1810-1891) and was sold by him in 1837 to Baron J.A.P. (LogOut/ Hendrick Bentinck rebuilt and enlarged it in the 1630s. Another Hendrick shifted his branchs centre somewhat to the north, acquiring the lordships of Diepenheim and Schoonheten in the 1630s, both in the province of Overijssel. 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