William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
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Portland was the elder son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland KG, GCVO, PC, TD, DL , known as William Cavendish-Bentinck until 1879, was a British landowner, courtier and Conservative politician...
, and his wife Winifred Anna (née Dallas-Yorke). He was elected to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament
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(MP) for Newark
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in 1922, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1943, and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury
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under Stanley Baldwin
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from 1927 to 1929 and under Ramsay Macdonald
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in 1932. He also held the honorary posts of Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire
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between 1939 and 1962 and was the second Chancellor
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of the University of Nottingham
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between 1954 and 1971. In 1948 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
Portland married Ivy Gordon-Lennox
Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland DBE , born Ivy Gordon-Lennox, was Duchess of Portland from 1943 to 1977 and afterwards Dowager Duchess. She founded the Harley Foundation, "to encourage creativity"....
, daughter of Lord Algernon Charles Gordon-Lennox, in 1915. They had two daughters. He died in March 1977, aged 84, and was succeeded in the dukedom by his third cousin Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck
Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland
Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland was a British peer.As the great-grandson of Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck , he was the surviving male heir of his third cousin, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, and succeeded to the title on the latter's death in...
. His junior title of Baron Bolsover
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became extinct on his death. The family seat of Welbeck Abbey
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passed to his elder daughter Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck was a member of the British nobility and one of the richest landowners in the country. Her father was William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, a British Conservative politician. The Duke was also known as "Chopper" for the wooden house he...
(1916-2008) who remained unmarried throughout her life. Portland's younger daughter Lady Margaret Parente had died 1955, leaving one son William Henry Marcello Parente (b. 1951), who was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
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in 2003-2004.