William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford and as
Portrait by John Powell, c. 1782
3rd Duke of Portland, by Matthew Pratt, c. 1774
Lady Dorothy Cavendish, by George Romney, c. 1772
Memorial to the 3rd Duke of Portland at the family vault in St Marylebone Parish Church
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig statesman who was t
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
…about by the British government's engagement in the American Revolutionary War. Portland resolved to make concessions and, overcoming the resistance of Lord Shelburne, the Home Secretary to whom he reported, convinced Parliament to repeal the Declaratory Act and to modify Poynings' Law. Following Rockingham's death…
Portrait by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, 1791
Shelburne served with distinction during the Seven Years' War participating in engagements such as the Battle of Minden in 1759.
A portrait of Lord Shelburne by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Shelburne, Charles James Fox and Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford by James Gillray (1783)