It has a further 11,000-acre estate in the English Midlands. g8Ji CJ3$oe8xb+U]M4$%$%r There were heated trucks to deliver food through the tunnels. In 1886, they were permitted, by royal licence, to bear the title Count Bentinck in the United Kingdom. It was in time adapted The 3rd Duke of Fife, who has died aged 85, inherited fortunes, titles and estates in Scotland from both sides of his . Once William and Mary were formally proclaimed king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, Bentinck was appointed Groom of the Stole (one of the most intimate court offices, in charge of the Kings private spaces within the palace), First Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and was given the titles Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock and Baron Cirencester. At nearly 80 years old., the 5th Duke had outlived his two closest male heirs, his cousins Charles and Arthur. Regulations 2007 or the Home . &>\+ It was the seat of the Ogle family for about two centuries (created barons in 1461), then passed via Cavendish to Cavendish-Bentinck, who restored it in the mid-19th century. The Countess was the heiress of an Imperial county formed in the late 17th century out of fragments of the ancient county of Oldenburg (of which Aldenburg was an older variant spelling), which had passed into possession of the House of Denmark on the extinction of its legitimate male line. The rugged landscape of the Queensberry Estate is the ideal location for windfarms and Buccleuch have helped facilitate these in the local area, including the two turbines now owned by the community group Propel.In addition, the former opencast mine site at Glenmuckloch has potential for a pumped storage hydro system. These lands were estimated (in 2008, when the last of these grand-daughters died) as 17,000 acres in Nottinghamshire (roughly 3% of the county) and 62,000 acres in Scotland. (LogOut/ Simplified family tree showing the line of descent of the Earls and Dukes of Portland(click to open in PDF format), Family tree of the Bentinck family, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire (click to open in PDF format), Biographies of the Earls and Dukes of Portland, Kings Meadow CampusLenton Lane The rails were cast iron fixed to The Duke's estates in Scotland include Langwell Lodge, which the family has frequently visited for deer-stalking and grouse-shooting in the autumn. The members of this family bore the surname Bentinck, Cavendish-Bentinck or Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, as indicated. William III had created many new dukes for this reason, so it seemed natural; plus, Henry Bentinck was now even wealthier than his father, as he had married a significant heiress, Lady Elizabeth Noel, daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough and heiress of Titchfield Abbey and its estates in Hampshire. Welbeck is one of the great traditional landed estates, nestled within Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. Their son, William Cavendish, was created Earl (1628), Marquess (1643) and Duke (1665) of Newcastle. The 3rd Duke was One of Hendricks grandsons, Eusebius, carried on the branch of Diepenheim and Schoonheten in the province of Overijssel, and we will return to them later on; a younger son, Hans Willem (1649-1709), became a favourite and protg of William III, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic. his personal interest and knowledge in agriculture and was He obtained from Parliament the right to build The honour of having the first railway in Scotland belongs Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk. She had died in 1945. History, heritage and genealogy about Europe's highest ranking aristocrats. Due to his European family connections, he later served as an informal diplomat between Britain, Denmark and Russia and died at the court of St Petersburg in 1813. Cavendish set about rebuilding the castle, more as a pleasure palace than a defensive structure, but it was his son, William, who turned Bolsover into the real gem we see today. I wanted this story changed for two reasons: Firstly, the original narrative was over crammed with information which made it difficult for our . been returned to a representative of its ancient owners when she William of Orange, and had been created Earl of Portland in 1689. Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th (Peerage of Scotland) and 6th (Peerage of UK) Duke of Argyll holds so many ancestral titles and historic offices that it sometimes becomes confusing to know what they could all possibly mean in the 21st century. This rather marvellous castle has been the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyll, Chiefs of the Clan Campbell, for many generations. In 1734, the Duke married the richest heiress of the day, Lady Margaret Cavendish-Harley (or Cavendish-Holles-Harley), the daughter of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer and Lady Henrietta Holles, herself a major heiress. Over the centuries it was heavily endowed by noble families and by King Edward I. 4th Earl of Kilmarnock, who had been executed for the part he In Swabia, they inherited the lordship of Gaildorf, once part of the ancient imperial County of Limpurg (northeast of Stuttgart)here they possessed an Old Schloss, built in the late 15th century, and later constructed a New Schloss, sometimes called the Bentinck Palace, which served as a summer retreat for the family until it was confiscated in 1918 (and now serves as the town hall). He inherited the Kilmarnock estate in 1795 when he married The 6th Duke did do something non-traditional, though he was in keeping with the changing times (and indeed the changing laws): in 1943, just before he died, he broke the entail on the Portland estates, since he could see that his grand-daughters would otherwise inherit nothing if the lands and titles stayed together and passed as usual to the next male heir (a distant cousin). d8T,@b3G~KwDtlzo3QuOMmSu=|*N1N*A The tunnels connected the main house to the kitchen gardens, stables and a large riding houseequipped with gas lighting! It was the Cavendish succession in the north of England that was the most significant, and caused the family to take on the double-barrelled surname Cavendish-Bentinck by the end of the century. The modern estate of Langwell was formerly known as Berriedale, and was possessed by two families of Sutherlands .Those of the first family, descended from John Begg, son of Nicolas, Earl of Sutherland, were styled "Sutherlands of Berriedale", and the other family . On his death, the title passed to his son, Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl (1605-1663), then to Charles Weston, 3rd Earl (1639-1665) and ultimately to Thomas Weston, 4th Earl (1609-1688), who was Charles' uncle and male heir, being the third surviving son of the 1st Earl by his second wife. In 1968 he became head of this branch of the family, and in 1990, at age 71, he succeeded his *very* distant cousins as 11th Earl of Portland, and his son Tim became Viscount Woodstock. The 4th Duke sold Bulstrode Park in 1811, to the Duke of Somerset. The 9th and last Duke of Portland (who used his third name, William, or Bill Bentinck) had also had a long career, first as a diplomat in the 1920-30s (rising to be Ambassador to Poland in 1945), then in business, mostly focusing on repairing links between Britain and German industry. Todays castle at Kniphausen is a re-purposed former stables and is in private hands. Two of his grandsons rose to prominence, one as an Admiral of the British Navy (Sir Rudolf Bentinck), and the other as a colonial administrator in South Africa. died, and Henrietta's husband became the 4th Duke of This double windfall of two generations of heiresses brought two major new properties from the Cavendish family, in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey. It took the form of Buccleuch Estate Records. Moved Permanently. On his death in 1711 the Clare estates and a portion of the Cavendish estates passed to his nephew, Thomas Pelham, created Duke of Newcastle in 1715, but the bulk of the Cavendish lands, together with the manor of Marylebone (Middlesex) and Wimpole (Cambridgeshire) passed to his daughter Henrietta, who married Edward Harley, later 2nd Earl of Oxford. 3 0 obj His son, William, 7th Duke of Portland, had been an MP for many years (officially as Marquess of Titchfield, but known as Chopper), and succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (until 1962), and was also Chancellor of Nottingham University. Titchfield Abbey had been founded by Premonstratensian monks in the 1220s, and was a frequent resting point for royalty travelling between London and Winchesteras well as the site of a royal wedding in 1445, between Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. In the next year, he lent his name to a Whig coalition led by Charles James Fox and Lord North as titular Prime Minister (actually First Lord of the Treasury) for 8 monthsthough significantly, it was during this year (1783) that his government signed the Treaty of Paris recognising the independence of the United States of America. It passed into the hands of the Seymour family, Dukes of Somerset. This information will help us make improvements to the website. Varel had been one of the ancient seats of the independent chiefs of the Frisians in the Middle Ages and its castle was expanded into a more palatial residence once the county of Aldenburg was established. be inherited by a descendant of Henrietta's. Sweetie Shop 6. 6ORN){] Gw2S8h1f1 >l*RqA*Q59@}$K;hl4}CT/i]XCQ$\ There is still a Bentinck Arms pub in North Lynn, that served dockworkers in Kings Lynn in the early 20th century, many of whom were Dutch. Its territory was sandy and marshy and full of woods and heath, so was often a preferred hunting ground for Dutch nobles. The Duke of Newcastle was incredibly interested in the equestrian arts, and it has been exciting to see English Heritage restoring and recreating his horse riding school at Bolsover in the past two decades. Lord William took it upon himself to encourage the liberal aspirations of the people of Sicily, much to the annoyance of their Bourbon king and queen, Ferdinand and Maria Carolina. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by Estates According to the will of the Duke of Bridgewater, the Egerton estates passed on the death of the first Duke of Sutherland to his third son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, who changed his surname to Egerton by Royal license. 157 - Nottinghamshire Archives This record (browse from here by hierarchy) Catalogue description Portland of Welbeck (4th Deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers This record is held by. But it is no longer Bentinck property, having been sold to a local shipping family (Van Hoboken) in 1830. The caves are high up on the sides of a wonderful limestone gorge, with a lake at its base. They are not a van family since theres no place or castle with that name; instead the surname derives as a sort of patronymic from a probable early founder named Bento. It took the form of daughter of the Earl of Errol and granddaughter of William Boyd the The Kilmarnock Estate inheritance passed to Henrietta's daughters, her direct descendants. 23 June 2015 5:35pm. Tommy 4. [1] The oldest six titles - created between 1337 and 1386 - were Duke of Cornwall (1337), Duke of Lancaster (1351), Duke of Clarence (1362), Duke of York (1385), Duke of Gloucester (1385), and Duke of Ireland (1386). It opened in 1812 especially fond of his lands and farms around Troon and to this day After a legal case at The Hague in 1781, Charlotte Sophie was confirmed as Doorwerth's owner. The 10th Duke of Roxburghe has died at the age of 64 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family has announced. Boutique, family run Estate Agents specialising in Sales, Lettings & Management based in Brighton and Hove. He contested this, and in 1818 was allowed a limited degree of sovereignty in Kniphausen and Varel, mostly concerning internal administration and external trade. I focus primarily as an academic on the early modern period and France, but my interests range from early medieval Ireland to 20th-century Russia. Schoonheten Castle has been, and remains, the main seat of the Bentincks in the Netherlands. He resigned in 1809 due to ill health and died soon after. Styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 to 1709, He was born 17 Mar. (LogOut/ In 1767, the 9th Earl married Mary Bowes, the heiress of a wealthy London businessman, and the family name became hyphenated. It was acquired in the late 17th century by the Van Keppel family (interestingly, rivals of the Bentincks in England), and today serves as a conference centre for the regional police service. 1812. Bolsover Castle is associated most with the 1st Duke of Newcastle, so will be looked at more closely in a different blog post. endobj His successor completely rebuilt the house in the 1860s, and it then passed to the Ramsden family who later sold it in the 1950s. Great Estates of Scotland This stunning series takes an in-depth look at the fascinating stories and inner workings of four of Scotland's most magnificent country estates, through the eyes of not only the current owners and the ghillies, gardeners, and housekeepers that keep them running, but also from the viewpoint of the paying guests who frequent these sumptuous country estates. Wanlockhead, a village of about 200 people, has agreed to pay Buccleuch Estates, the duke's property company, nearly 1.5m for 3,863 acres of moorland, brownfield land and pasture, after four. He was the eldest son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Dorothy Cavendish. to Ayrshire. Besides the streets and squares in London bearing his family names, he also gave his name to Portland Inlet and Bentinck Channel along the coast of British Columbia. I have done extensive research using the rental records in particular, which cover Buccleuch estates in . The 11th Earl of Portland; born October 2, 1919, died January 30, 1997 THE Earl of Portland, who has died at the age of 77, was the direct descendant of the 1st Earl of Portland, a favourite. Today it is in government ownership and cared for by English Heritage. The eldest, Lady Anne, never married and lived at Welbeck Abbey and managed its vast estates until her death in 2008. His son, Viscount Woodstock, later 2nd Earl and from 1716 1st Duke of Portland, married in 1704 a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Gainsborough, through whom came a moiety of the Titchfield (Hampshire) estates formerly belonging to the Wriothesley Earls of Southampton. Although he never visited any of his Ayrshire estates after The Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Charlotte Sophie inherited them and ruled as a semi-independent princess in 1738, but as her marriage broke down due to adultery, and her private life became too scandalous for Dutch society, she was divorced from Bentinck in 1744, and deposed by her former husband in 1748, who then ruled the county of Aldenburg in the name of his sons. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. His subsidiary titles created in 1716 included Marquess of Titchfield, to be used for the heir. Count Henry Noel served in the British army in World War II, then became a producer for the BBC. Find out more about Welbeck. Kings Meadow CampusLenton Lane He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. the first railway in Scotland"for the improvement of 'North west view of Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire', by F. Chantrey R.A., 1823. An agreement was made that the Kilmarnock Estate could only (LogOut/ has been transferred to a dedicated estate office. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. 4 0 obj Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Once her half-brother William succeeded as 6th Duke of Portland in 1879, she was granted the rank of a dukes daughter, so entitled to be called Lady Ottoline, while her husband (married in 1902) was simply Mr Philip Morrell. Much further to the north, Bothal Castle was part of the Ogle succession that had fallen to the Cavendishes by marriage in the 1590s. and was very well informed about their condition. Bulstrode Park was particularly renowned for its formal landscaped gardens. Back from Malaya and farming the family 20,000-acre estate around Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, he inherited his mother's fortune and estates as soon as he turned 21. Kr;JEChjF]^-yPl -dQ$$c=1=2]*du be inherited by a descendant of Henrietta's. Henrietta married the Marquis of Titchfield - later the 4th Duke of Portland - in 1795. his estates", and construction started in 1808. Since the early 17th century a large part of rural South of Scotland has been owned by the Duke of Buccleuch and his ancestors. It was inherited by Henry Noel Bentinck, as 11th Earl of Portland. His diplomatic career had been cut short (apparently on the verge of being named ambassador to Brazil) because of a divorce in 1948, which in those days was still too shameful for society to handle. William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, KG, GCVO, TD, PC, DL (28 December 1857 - 26 April 1943), known as William Cavendish-Bentinck until 1879, was a British landowner, courtier, and Conservative politician. The King of Self Pity 7. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. He obtained from Parliament the right to build. 1807. BZ,_nN]mr10k noble family from Holland. and Governor General of India), William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland (1800-1879), William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943), William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893-1977), Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1888-1980), Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland (1897-1990), Henry Noel Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland (1919-1997), Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland (b 1953), Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck (1704-1774), Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentinck, ne Countess of Aldenburg (1715-1800), John Albert Bentinck (1737-1775; naval captain and M.P. The Harleys main residence was the more modern Brampton Bryan Hall (also in Herefordshire). It gets this name from the four historic neighbouring ducal seats - Welbeck, Clumber, Thoresby, and Worksop Manor. >C[(E|zVsA!V|> R*286q!7{W.%:$ O7/&*qmz9ivm9('P ?Q(D+4hU-Sw Het Loo, for example, has been a hunting lodge for the princely (then royal) House of Orange for centuries. And theres more: the senior line of Bentinck van Diepenheim and Schoonheten were also confirmed as barons of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814, but they had already sold the castle of Diepenheim in 1813 (today the private estate of the De Vos van Steenwijk familycousins and neighbours of the Bentincks since the 15th century). THE SUTHERLANDS OF LANGWELL. 2 0 obj Just before she died, in 1786, the Duchess acquired one of the most famous pieces of glass in the world, a 1st-century Roman vase now known as the Portland Vase, deposited in the British Museum for safe keeping by her son the 3rd Duke, and finally sold to the Museum by the 7th Duke in 1945. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by William Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, between 1808 and 1812. Hans Willem, Lord of Rhoons connections to England started earlier than the Anglo-Dutch Moment of 1688-89. At Buccleuch, we are dedicated to supporting the communities we live and work within, respecting the environment, and contributing to rural culture through our heritage for generations to come. Scotland is also well known for its castles. his estates", and construction started in 1808. HENRY BENTINCK, Earl of Portland till 6 July 1716, when he was created Marquess of Titchfield and DUKE OF PORTLAND. and its surrounding countryside. As with Welbeck, the seat passed down through the Portland line of descent, and was given to the nation by the 7th Duke of Portland in 1945. The Duke of Sutherland, one of the wealthiest landowners in Scotland, faced straitened times after the First World War. One of his estates, Queensberry, includes the Lowther Hills and covers over 33,500 hectares. We need now to travel back to the Netherlands, and back to the 18th century. 1 bedroom flat for rent in Duke Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1AG, BN1 for 1,025 pcm. In 1846 he was created Viscount Brackley and Earl of Ellesmere. many of the street names bear witness to his investment in the town He was recalled to Britain but surprisingly went unpunished. Hospital Song 14. Opening times: 1 April - 31 October 2022. Hendrick also took on the important post of Drost of Salland, sort of equivalent in English to a local sheriff or seneschal. For the first three decades of the 20th century, she was a literary hostess, a patron, and a protector of pacifists and conscientious objectors during World War I (like Lytton Strachey), notably at her home, Garsington Manor, in Oxfordshire. The Adam brothers' celebrated street improvements at Mansfield Street and Portland Place, carried out from the 1760s on the Marylebone estate of the Dukes of Portland, are among the many significant buildings covered by the Survey of London's forthcoming volumes on South-East Marylebone. Stephenson. It was William who was responsible for the building of the large indoor riding school at Bolsover and who lavishly entertained King Charles I there. The Langwell (Caithness) estate was acquired by the 5th Duke between 1857 and 1869. It was in time adapted Bulstrude Park is located in Buckinghamshire, not far from Beaconsfield (and surprisingly close to the M40 motorway!). With planning . Again, he exceeded his orders and encouraged the locals to consider adopting a more liberal form of government, ie, not restoring the Habsburg grand dukes, and even preaching Italian unificationsomething that definitely would annoy Britains allies, Sardinia and Austria. He married a grand-daughter of the 6th Duke of Richmond, Ivy Gordon-Lennox, and they had two daughters. There was a subterranean library and a grand billiards room. Doorwerth passed to Anton's son, Anton II (1681-1738), and then to his granddaughter Charlotte Sophie, Countess of Aldenburg (1715-1800). William John Cavendish-Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland (1800-1879) William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (1857-1943) William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893-1977) Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1888-1980) For the purposes of this post, I'll be leaving aside their 94,817 acres of Scottish landholdings - Andy Wightman has covered these at Who Owns Scotland - and . His descendants were also recognised as counts in the United Kingdom in 1886, then died out in 1938. Abstract. privacy policy. The English ducal branch added the historic name Cavendish in the early 19th century, and one of its daughters, Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck, became the much lesser known grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. William Bentinck, the 3rd Duke of Portland, changed his family's Episodes . Over three centuries later, one family, the Bentincks, still benefit from this relatively brief merging of national interests. William Bentinck of Terrington became a Vice-Admiral in the British Navy and was governor of the Caribbean island of St Vincent, 1798-1802. He inherited the Kilmarnock estate in 1795 when he married Henrietta Scott, the daughter of General John Scott of Balgonie. Hans Willem Bentinck was one of the leading supporters of Williams accession to the English and Scottish thrones; created earl of Portland, his son was elevated further as duke of Portland in 1716. Started earlier than the Anglo-Dutch Moment of 1688-89 his family's Episodes $ $ c=1=2 ] * du be by. 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