a tramroad or 'plateway' and was nine and a half miles long and ran On his death in 1711 the Clare estates and a portion of the Cavendish estates passed to his nephew, Thomas Pelham, created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, but the bulk of the Cavendish lands, together with the manor of Marylebone (Middlesex) and Wimpole (Cambridgeshire) passed to his daughter Henrietta, who married Edward Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford. Both were permitted to use the title Baron Bentinck in the United Kingdom by George V in 1911. He also retained lands in England as lord of the manor of Terrington in Norfolk, not far from Kings Lynn. The caves are high up on the sides of a wonderful limestone gorge, with a lake at its base. He resigned in 1809 due to ill health and died soon after. For the purposes of this post, I'll be leaving aside their 94,817 acres of Scottish landholdings - Andy Wightman has covered these at Who Owns Scotland - and . A8083 13. He served with William in battle in Ireland and in the Low Countries, then acted as ambassador to France, 1698, representing the Kings interests in the all-important question of the Spanish Succession. Both castles were ultimately destroyed by fires: Varel in 1751 and 1817, then gradually dismantled, and Kniphausen in 1708, never rebuilt. South-Western Company. Duke sets sights on estate expansion - Monday interview: Duke of Roxburghe. 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. Tommy 4. (LogOut/ 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). Search through trusted Scottish sporting estates and providers offering all country sports in Scotland from game shooting - including pheasant, partridge, woodcock, and pigeon, as well as grouse and ptarmigan which are distinct to the British Isles. Episodes . The first documented ancestor is Johan or Jan Bentinck, who owned land in a region known as the Veluwe, a gentle hilly region that formed the northern part of the duchy of Gelderland (or Guelders). 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. Contents The eldest, Lady Anne, never married and lived at Welbeck Abbey and managed its vast estates until her death in 2008. But it is no longer Bentinck property, having been sold to a local shipping family (Van Hoboken) in 1830. 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. Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove. daughter of the Earl of Errol and granddaughter of William Boyd the 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. Next page: Portland Family biographies Manuscripts and Special Collections Nottingham, NG7 2NR telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8651 email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk This was later rescinded in 1932. At Buccleuch, we are dedicated to supporting the communities we live and work within, respecting the environment, and contributing to rural culture through our heritage for generations to come. 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, who had been executed for the part he It opened in 1812 It was thus a Cavendish-Holles-Harley heiress who became the 2nd Duchess of Portland. When he died in 1711, his estates went to his daughter Henrietta who married another politician, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer (son of the more famous first minister of Queen Anne), though the name Holles and the title Newcastle went to his nephew, Thomas Pelham. 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. 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. The Duke of Buccleuch has been selling off parts of his vast estate in recent years The continued dominance of the private estates in rural Scotland can't be underestimated, and they often. Duke of Buccleuch Richard Scott Estate Buccleuch Estates 2017/18 subsidies 2m Mahdi al-Tajir Estate Blackford 2017/18 subsidies 1.636m Scott's wealth has been estimated at about. 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. van Brakell. It gave Hans Willem and his successors a seat in the local estates and house of lords of Holland. Portland. stone blocks and the whole thing cost 50, 000. passed to a cousin, but his widow continued in possession of the Welbeck estates, which on her death in 1755 passed to her daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley. It opened in 1812 Henrietta Scott, the daughter of General John Scott of Balgonie. his personal interest and knowledge in agriculture and was This is a list of the 30 present and extant dukes in the peerages of the Kingdom of England ,For a more complete historical listing, including extinct, dormant, abeyant, forfeit dukedoms in addition to these extant ones, see List of dukedoms in the peerages of the British Isles. 1964) is, strictly lineally speaking, head of both English and Dutch baronial lines. % An interesting webpage about the Welbeck tunnels: https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/welbeck-tunnels-notts-september-2016.33961/. The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and Varel had been one of the ancient seats of the independent chiefs of the Frisians in the Middle Ages and its castle was expanded into a more palatial residence once the county of Aldenburg was established. It took the form of died, and Henrietta's husband became the 4th Duke of With his death in 1990 the honour became extinct. While Marquis of Titchfield he sat in the House of Commons and later as Duke in the Lords, he had limited engagement with politics, which he left to his father, brother-in-law . It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, between 1808 and 1812. There has been a moated manor house here, near the town of Raalte, since the 1380s. the firm that sponsored the duke's Scottish Seniors Open - was hit by the housing slowdown. The modern estate of Langwell was formerly known as Berriedale, and was possessed by two families of Sutherlands .Those of the first family, descended from John Begg, son of Nicolas, Earl of Sutherland, were styled "Sutherlands of Berriedale", and the other family . It became the chief residence of the dukes of Portland after the sale of Bulstrode in 1811, and then significantly altered by the 5th Duke, as we shall see below. It was enlarged again in the late 18th century with the addition of an English-style garden. 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. ), William Bentinck (1764-1813; Vice-Admiral), Lord Henry William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (1804-1870), Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839), Winifred Anna Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1863-1954). 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). The Portland family owned the estate until a period of sales commencing in the 1790's. Shadow Song 10. 1825-1855: the 'Second Wave' of clearances and the Great Highland Famine. Best Price (Room Rates) Guarantee Check all reviews, photos, contact number & address of Duke of Portland Boathouse on the shore of Lake . He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. History, heritage and genealogy about Europe's highest ranking aristocrats. Hans Willem Bentinck (1649-1709), an associate of King William III, was created Earl of Portland in 1689 and acquired extensive estates in Buckinghamshire (Bulstrode Park), Hertfordshire (Theobalds), Cumberland, Middlesex (Soho) and elsewhere, plus, in his mother's name, a large estate in Ireland. He notably served as Master of the Horse between 1886 and 1892 and again between 1895 and 1905. for locomotive traffic with the first engine being constructed by Two of his grandsons rose to prominence, one as an Admiral of the British Navy (Sir Rudolf Bentinck), and the other as a colonial administrator in South Africa. To entangle the estates and castles of this vast and complicated succession, lets start at the end and work backwards. Boutique, family run Estate Agents specialising in Sales, Lettings & Management based in Brighton and Hove. Hendrick Bentinck rebuilt and enlarged it in the 1630s. privacy policy. van Brakell. The title Earl of Portland did not die out with the dukedom, however. PORTLAND; BENTINCK . The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. By trust-disposition and settlement, dated 17th January 1871, the late Duke of Portland conveyed to trustees his whole estate in Scotland, with directions to settle, "as soon as practicable" after his death, the whole landed estate in strict entail on a certain series of heirs. When the monasteries were dissolved in the 1530s, one of Henry VIIIs henchmen, er, courtiers, Thomas Wriothesley acquired the property and converted it into a residence. Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. Hans Bentinck came to England with It was the seat of the Ogle family for about two centuries (created barons in 1461), then passed via Cavendish to Cavendish-Bentinck, who restored it in the mid-19th century. He carried the crown of his cousin Queen Elizabeth at her coronation in 1937. Many are incredibly old; the country has many in ruins but also many are still in use. Kr;JEChjF]^-yPl -dQ$$c=1=2]*du wviW aESrOunUT?R. (LogOut/ Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. This alternative title died with him in 1698. The Duke of Westminster. Following the French Revolution, the Whig Party fractured, and those who were not in favour of such rapid liberal advances shifted to support the more conservative William Pitt, led by the Duke of Portland (these became known as the Portland Faction). South-Western Company. Over three centuries later, one family, the Bentincks, still benefit from this relatively brief merging of national interests. 1851 - 1852 - Alexander Woodburn, <> 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. William of Orange, and had been created Earl of Portland in 1689. 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. Unlike most of his family, he had little interest in politics, and it soon became apparent that he didnt like people at all. married General Scott. S1 E4 - 55m 25s. Only the garden centre and a newly built art gallery is open to the public. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. 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. many of the street names bear witness to his investment in the town Stuck on this Bloody Island 2. Charlotte Sophie inherited them and ruled as a semi-independent princess in 1738, but as her marriage broke down due to adultery, and her private life became too scandalous for Dutch society, she was divorced from Bentinck in 1744, and deposed by her former husband in 1748, who then ruled the county of Aldenburg in the name of his sons. In Swabia, they inherited the lordship of Gaildorf, once part of the ancient imperial County of Limpurg (northeast of Stuttgart)here they possessed an Old Schloss, built in the late 15th century, and later constructed a New Schloss, sometimes called the Bentinck Palace, which served as a summer retreat for the family until it was confiscated in 1918 (and now serves as the town hall). 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. 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). %PDF-1.7 Browse by Records Creators Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland This page summarises records created by this Family The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually. It was the 4th Dukes younger brother, Lord William Bentinck, who was the more fascinating figure, however. The estate passed to William's son, Charles A. Bentinck (1810-1891) and was sold by him in 1837 to Baron J.A.P. Therefore the estate had the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. [)~qY0 R[j3 Fe]=Kr_!N@Lof);A25 L$f"Ap*0>-kJ)N'm#5n5 NJG#UDXK#(B{DHzJvL1\ XT But after a succession dispute between two brothers, Willem Gustaf and Jan Carel (the former of whom had married a local farmers daughter), the two properties were sold to the Grand Duke in 1854, for 2 million thaler. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was originally built in 1686 by Judge Jefferies. The Cavendish family, founded on Tudor wealth in the 16th century (Welbeck was of course another dissolved abbey) had been divided in the early 17th century into the Devonshire line and the Newcastle lineboth of these were dukedoms and will be explored in a separate post for the mighty Cavendish family. The duke's 96,000 acre estate say it costs between 20,000 and 30,000-a-year to maintain the lodge. William Bentinck, the 3rd Duke of Portland, changed his family's &>\+ 'North west view of Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire', by F. Chantrey R.A., 1823. He was the eldest son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish. 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. (LogOut/ 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. 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. The Duke was buried in St Winifreds Church, Holbeck, on the Welbeck Estate, which he had built in the early years of the 20th century. The junior line, lords of t Velde, got a step up as its founder, Hendrick, acted as Steward of the lands of the Duke of Guelders in the Veluwe. 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