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Born 27 August 1750 ( 1750-08-27 ) Children William Bentinck, 4th Duke of PortlandLord William BentinckLady Charlotte BentinckLady Mary BentinckLord Charles BentinckLord Frederick Bentinck | ||
Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 1750 – 3 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland as wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. She is also a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II through the queen's maternal grandmother.
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Biography
Lady Dorothy Cavendish was born on 27 August 1750 to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the Prime Minister of Great Britain and his wife Lady Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford.
Marriage and children
On 8 November 1766, Lady Dorothy Cavendish was married to William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. They were parents of six children:
According to newspaper accounts, she was the mother of nine children, only four of whom were living at the time of her own death.
The Duchess of Portland died at her home, Burlington House, Piccadilly, and was buried in St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone, London. She “died of a bowel complaint, which she had been subject to for many years, and which terminated in a mortification after a short illness. It was at first suspected, from the violent inflammation in her bowels, that her Grace had eaten water-gruel out of a copper saucepan not properly tinned; but this suspicion is certainly erroneous, as it proved on examination.”
She is a great-great-great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II (see ancestry of Elizabeth II)