William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland
- William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716 to 1726, was a British peer and politician. 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.
- He succeeded his father in the dukedom as a teen in 1726.
- He was an original governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, founded in 1739, and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1741.
- On 11 June 1734 he married Lady Margaret Harley, daughter of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
- They had six children: Lady Elizabeth Bentinck (Welbeck Abbey, 27 June 1735 – 25 December 1825, London), who married Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath (1734–1796) Lady Henrietta Bentinck (8 February 1737 – 4 June 1827), who married George Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (1737–1819) William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (b.
- 14 April 1738 – d.
- 30 October 1809), who married Lady Dorothy Cavendish (1750–1794) daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire Lady Margaret Bentinck (26 July 1739 – 28 April 1756) Lady Frances Bentinck (9 April 1741 – March 1743) Lord Edward Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (3 March 1744 – 8 October 1819), married Elizabeth Cumberland (d.
- 1837)The Duke did not seek any public office, but focused on his family life at the family seat, Bulstrode Park.Portland is identified in The Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1909) as one of the perpetrators of The Great Bottle Hoax of 1749, in which a large crowd was lured to a London theatre with the expectation of seeing a man jump into a "quart bottle". Portland died in May 1762, aged 53, was buried at Westminster Abbey.
- He was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son William, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
- The Duchess of Portland died in 1785.
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Christian Friedrich Zincke
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| Alternative names | Christian Friedrich Zink | ||
| Description | German-British painter and miniaturist | ||
| Date of birth/death | circa 1684 | 24 March 1767 | |
| Location of birth/death | Dresden | Lambeth (now London) | |
| Work period | from 1700 until 1746 | ||
| Work location | London | ||
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