His diplomatic career had been cut short (apparently on the verge of being named ambassador to Brazil) because of a divorce in 1948, which in those days was still too shameful for society to handle. The local town retains a memory of its long British connections, with a pub named the Duke of Portland. The estate of Langwell is in the parish of Latheron. Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th (Peerage of Scotland) and 6th (Peerage of UK) Duke of Argyll holds so many ancestral titles and historic offices that it sometimes becomes confusing to know what they could all possibly mean in the 21st century. 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. The rails were cast iron fixed to
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Magic Bottle 9. Over three centuries later, one family, the Bentincks, still benefit from this relatively brief merging of national interests. His son, William, 7th Duke of Portland, had been an MP for many years (officially as Marquess of Titchfield, but known as Chopper), and succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (until 1962), and was also Chancellor of Nottingham University. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was originally built in 1686 by Judge Jefferies. This was later rescinded in 1932. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, GB/NNAF/F86113 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F9541 ), Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland. He was a descendant of Lord Frederick, the fourth son of the 3rd Duke. S1 E4 - 55m 25s. 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. 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. The Countess was known as one of the grand hostesses of the era, and her daughters entered high society, where the youngest of them, Lady Elizabeth, caught the eye of the Duke of York, and married him, in 1923. The Grosvenor Estate comprises some 140,000 acres of land across Scotland and England (or perhaps very slightly less: 133,000 acres according to this recent Daily Mail article). She was the daughter of Reverend Charles Bentincks younger brother, Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck. He communicated via letter boxes all over the house, but really only occupied a small apartment, sparsely furnished, in one corner of one of the largest houses in Britain. Almost all the males in the family were named William (in honour of their original patron in England), but usually went by their second name; in this case he used William, while his older brother the Duke was William Henry, and his younger brother, William Charles, used Charles (see below). fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8651 Styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 to 1709, He was born 17 Mar. 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. his accession to the title, William took a warm interest in them
157 - Nottinghamshire Archives This record (browse from here by hierarchy) Catalogue description Portland of Welbeck (4th Deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers This record is held by. But he died of a brain abscess before he reached thirty. his estates", and construction started in 1808. A decade later, he was sent back to India, first as Governor of Bengal, 1828, then as the first Governor-General of India, 1834-35. Over the centuries it was heavily endowed by noble families and by King Edward I. 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. The duke's 96,000 acre estate say it costs between 20,000 and 30,000-a-year to maintain the lodge. 4 0 obj
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It passed into parliament hands following the execution of Charles I, and the palace, which had fallen into disrepair, was demolished. 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. Lord Clare was created Duke of Newcastle in 1694. Originally created by James I as a hunting park, the house was a significant royal palace. between Kilmarnock and Troon. William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland carried the family line forward, and became its most famous politician. name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy
Via Grosvenor Estates, the 62-year-old Duke is the richest property developer in the UK. He criminalised the practice of sati (a widows self-immolation on her husbands funeral pyre) and female infanticide; passed stronger laws against organised crime; passed the English Education Act (replacing Persian as the language of high courts); and founded the Calcutta Medical College. a tramroad or 'plateway' and was nine and a half miles long and ran
Daneshill School is a unique co-educational school set within 100 . His son predeceased him in the 1960s, and with no male heir when he died in 1990, the dukedom ceased to exist. It was said that when he went to London, his carriage was put directly on the train so he never had to see anyone, and he rarely left his residence, Harcourt House on Cavendish Square. The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His son James, the 14th Earl of Glencairn, sold the estate to Henrietta, 'the rich Miss Scott', eldest daughter of General John Scott of Balcomie, Fife in 1786. Much of the oldest parts burned in 1900 and were rebuilt. William of Orange, and had been created Earl of Portland in 1689. Today it is in private hands and not open to visitors. Duke sets sights on estate expansion - Monday interview: Duke of Roxburghe. Anxious to reward his close friend and supporter, [Hans] William Bentinck, William created him Baron of Cirencester, Viscount Woodstock and Earl of Portland in February 1689. Hans Willem Bentincks eldest surviving son, Henry, carried on the family legacy as a chief supporter of the Whig political agenda in Britainthat is a limited, Protestant monarchyand was therefore created 1st Duke of Portland by the new Hanoverian regime in 1716. 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. and its surrounding countryside. On his return, The Duke applied himself to the 'improvement' of his Scottish estates, applying some of Smith's teachings in partnership with his agent, William Reid - harnessing the energies of his tenantry in an enlightened and mutually-beneficial way. Around 1690 the exiled James II created the title Earl of Portland for Edward Herbert, brother of the 1st Earl of Torrington. Todays castle at Kniphausen is a re-purposed former stables and is in private hands. He had been appointed a page and chamberlain in the household of Prince William as a young man, and crucially, nursed him back to health after an attack of smallpox in 1675. 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 . 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. It was eventually leased to the Glasgow &
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There were heated trucks to deliver food through the tunnels. Its territory was sandy and marshy and full of woods and heath, so was often a preferred hunting ground for Dutch nobles. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The new Duke was named a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1717, and Governor of Jamaica in 1722, where he died in 1726. 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. Although he never visited any of his Ayrshire estates after
It was acquired in the late 17th century by the Van Keppel family (interestingly, rivals of the Bentincks in England), and today serves as a conference centre for the regional police service. Only the garden centre and a newly built art gallery is open to the public. The younger branch added to their aristocratic lustre first in the Netherlands by incorporating the succession of the Reede-Ginckel family, earls of Athlone (created in 1692 for another one of William IIIs generals, Godert van Ginckel van Reede; extinct 1844) by inheritance in the 1840s; then by gaining the lands of the counts of Limpurg-Gaildorf by marriage in the 1860s. Welbeck is one of the great traditional landed estates, nestled within Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. endobj
This province, which for centuries was not independent, but property of the bishops of Utrecht, takes its name from the fact that it is across the River IJssel. The Lyon family were Angus landowners from the 14th century, created Baron Glamis in 1445, and Earl of Kinghorne (later adding Strathmore) in 1606. After that, the house and lands passed to her nephew, the Prince of Castel Viscardo (which is in Umbria). One of his estates, Queensberry, includes the Lowther Hills and covers over 33,500 hectares. 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. Shadow Song 10. QUEENSBERRY ESTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY. 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