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b. 27 Feb. 1802, 3rd. s. of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck†, 4th duke of Portland (d. 1854), and Henrietta, da. and coh. of Maj.-Gen. John Scott† of Balcomie, Fife; bro. of William Henry Cavendish Scott Bentinck, mq. of Titchfield* and William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck, mq. of Titchfield*. educ. by fa.’s chaplain Rev. D.H. Parry. unm. d.v.p. 21 Sept. 1848.
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Ensign and lt. (half-pay) 1 Ft. Gds. 1818; cornet 9 Drag. 1819; capt. 50 Ft. 1821; capt. 41 Ft. 1822, half-pay 1823; capt. 2 Life Gds. 1824; capt. 75 Ft. Jan. 1826; maj. army (half-pay) Feb. 1826; ret. 1835.

Private sec. to sec. of state for foreign affairs Oct. 1822 – Apr. 1824.

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CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Lord William George Frederick (1802-1848).
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No comprehensive biography has been published. His later political career as a Protectionist is covered in B. Disraeli, Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography (1872), which draws on material not subsequently available; N. Gash, Pillars of Government, 112-75; and A. Macintyre, ‘Lord George Bentinck and the Protectionists: A Lost Cause’, TRHS (ser.5), xxxix (1989), 141-65. His career on the Turf is covered in J. Kent, The Racing Life of George Cavendish Bentinck (1892); M. Seth Smith, Lord Paramount of the Turf (1971); M.J. Huggins, ‘Lord Bentinck, the Jockey Club and Racing Morality in 19th Cent.’, International Jnl. of Hist. of Sport, xiii (1996), 432-44.

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Commons 1820-1832
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CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Lord William George Frederick (1802-1848)

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