Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland,, known as Victor Cavendish-Bentinck until 1977 and Lord Victor Cavendish-Bentinck from 1977 to 1980, and informally as Bill Bentinck,
Cavendish-Bentinck in 1983
Earl of Portland
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Earl of Portland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, firstly in 1633 and secondly in 1689. What proved to be a long co-held title, Duke of Portland, was created in 1716 a
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland
…its subsidiary titles of Viscount Woodstock and Baron Cirencester, therefore passed to the 9th Duke's kinsman Henry Noel Bentinck, who became the 11th Earl of Portland. The 9th Duke was interred at the traditional burial place of the Dukes of Portland in the churchyard of St Winifred's Church, Holbeck in Nottinghamshire…
William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland
Portrait of the Duke of Portland by Thomas Lawrence, 1792. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, who twice served as Prime Minister