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
Spencer Perceval
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Spencer Perceval was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1809 until his assassination in May 1812. He is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated, and the only solicitor
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
…Portland was once again an acceptable figurehead for a fractious group of ministers that included George Canning, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Hawkesbury and Spencer Perceval. Portland's second government saw the United Kingdom's complete isolation on the continent but also the beginning of its recovery with the start of the…
Posthumous portrait by G. F. Joseph, 1812
Perceval's early childhood was spent at Charlton House (pictured)
Jane Perceval (née Wilson) by Vigée Le Brun, 1804
Engraving of the British House of Commons, 1808