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In 1786, Horace Walpole attended a vast, thirty eight-day auction that dismantled the collection of the recently deceased Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, duchess of Portland (1715-1785). Over a lifetime of voracious collecting, the duchess had assembled a largely unrivalled collection of natural history specimens alongside art works and antiquities, including the now famous Portland Vase.
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), (daughter of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (1689-1741) and his wife Lady Henrietta (née Cavendish Holles, 1694-1755) married William, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709-1762) in 1734. By the terms of her mother's will she inherited the Cavendish estates, and so brought the Welbeck ...
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (11 February 1715 – 17 July 1785) was a British aristocrat, styled Lady Margaret Harley before 1734, Duchess of Portland from 1734 to her husband's death in 1761, and Dowager Duchess of Portland from 1761 until her own death in 1785. She was a member of the Bluestockings, a group of social intellectuals led by women and founded by her great ...
2nd Duchess of Portland (Pw E) Margaret Bentinck, née Cavendish-Harley (1715-1785) 3rd Duke of Portland (Pw F) William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck (1738-1809) and in Pl C. This section also contains correspondence of Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentinck (1715-1800) with her granddaughter Sophia H. Hawkins-Whitshed, née Bentinck.
found: Oxford DNB online, 5 Aug. 2014 (Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland (1715-1785), collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences; born 11 February 1715 in London; married on 11 June 1734, to William Bentinck, second duke of Portland (1709-1762); the couple settled at Bulstrode, near Gerrards Cross in ...
She is buried at the traditional burial place of the Dukes of Portland in the churchyard of St Winifred's Church at Holbeck. Descendants. The Duke and Duchess of Portland had two daughters, Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, born on 6 September 1916; and Lady Victoria Margaret Cavendish-Bentinck, born on 9 October 1918.
Henrietta Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1774 – 24 April 1844), formerly Henrietta Scott, was the wife of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland. Henrietta was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the eldest daughter and the heiress of Major-General John Scott of Fife and his second wife, the former Margaret Dundas. [2]
