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. Daneshill School is a unique co-educational school set within 100 . Unlike most of his family, he had little interest in politics, and it soon became apparent that he didnt like people at all. q[n+3w\wl"D!14qDfyz]3eYZ2I&Pr+#-ZFfu;bkQC lJ6/j;QmtC:e'YNq?Nlayll/% 8p;=^Jvdj]*DFEu16vjjDQblQr.K-DH UKk [ tPMT+-KE?f*VQ6:DHU)n:
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His son predeceased him in the 1960s, and with no male heir when he died in 1990, the dukedom ceased to exist. The members of this family bore the surname Bentinck, Cavendish-Bentinck or Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, as indicated. x\[sF~wCeupTd2T}h(Z~!X$Ows{V\'~eI"E"h^}}xvw{i (iK?pThqG2Wbqy>>}i=z?A.xr"_P$>#8n^ez^.m|Z5?X}raK?0/h>mXfHDDis>PVw
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Though Thomas married in 1667, his wife died only two years later and there were no heirs. By trust-disposition and settlement, dated 17th January 1871, the late Duke of Portland conveyed to trustees his whole estate in Scotland, with directions to settle, "as soon as practicable" after his death, the whole landed estate in strict entail on a certain series of heirs. The rails were cast iron fixed to
In an attempt to ease his financial burdens, he disposed of his London house, and in 1919 sold off seven parts of his estates in Sutherland, amounting to 115,000 acres. Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. Styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 to 1709, He was born 17 Mar. The 10th Duke of Roxburghe has died at the age of 64 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family has announced. Table of Contents Show Abbotsford House Abbotsford House Scullery Sue 12. The Duke of Argyll has hit out at a Scottish government proposal to give landowners' close relatives inheritance rights to their property, calling it a "terrifying" idea that would be. Lady Isle 3. Our teams carefully manage complex economic, community and environmental considerations across a range of sectors, for the benefit of people . The 4th Duke sold Bulstrode Park in 1811, to the Duke of Somerset. Over the centuries it was heavily endowed by noble families and by King Edward I. He also retained lands in England as lord of the manor of Terrington in Norfolk, not far from Kings Lynn. 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. a tramroad or 'plateway' and was nine and a half miles long and ran
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. 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. Since the early 17th century a large part of rural South of Scotland has been owned by the Duke of Buccleuch and his ancestors. The duke's 96,000 acre estate say it costs between 20,000 and 30,000-a-year to maintain the lodge. The Duke's estates in Scotland include Langwell Lodge, which the family has frequently visited for deer-stalking and grouse-shooting in the autumn. At their height, together they covered 88,000 acres which gave the Dukeries at the time the qualities of a self-contained world. The estate of Langwell is in the parish of Latheron. 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. and was very well informed about their condition. 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 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. The branch born unequally moved to the United States and faded away. 1812. Doorwerth passed to Anton's son, Anton II (1681-1738), and then to his granddaughter Charlotte Sophie, Countess of Aldenburg (1715-1800). The title was revived the very next year by William III, following his accession to the throne in the 'Glorious Revolution'. The Duke of Portland The honour of having the first railway in Scotland belongs to Ayrshire. It became the resting place of all of the 20th-century dukes. 1 0 obj
The Harleys main residence was the more modern Brampton Bryan Hall (also in Herefordshire). He was Lord President of the Council, 1801-1805, then a few years later (1807) took up the mantle once more of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, again as a figurehead leader of a coalition of Pittites (Canning, Castlereagh, Perceval, etc). It was inherited by Henry Noel Bentinck, as 11th Earl of Portland. PSrb[
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stone blocks and the whole thing cost 50, 000. 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. Following the restoration, the estate was restored. 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. For more than 500 years, Inveraray Castle has housed the chieftain of one of the world's best-known family clans, the Clan Campbell. It was constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon by
The King of Self Pity 7. South-Western Company. The rest of this story is well known. Doorwerth was a small estate near Arnhem in the province of Gelderland, The Netherlands. Lord Clare was created Duke of Newcastle in 1694. In the next generation, the 4th Duke, another William Henry, continued to hold high political office, as Lord Privy Seal in the administration of his brother-in-law George Canning, 1827, then Lord President of the Council in the administration of Cannings replacement Viscount Goderich, until the government fell in early 1828. It was soon abandoned and partly demolished. Today, it is run by English Heritage and has been the subject of extensive restoration, including the riding school. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. privacy policy. His daughter Henrietta Holles did, however, inherit the manor of Marylebone, then on the outskirts of London, and today reflecting past ownership in the names of its streets: Harley Street, Oxford Street, Henrietta Street, Wimpole Street, Wigmore Street (and Wigmore Hall); as well as Cavendish Square, Great Portland Street and so on. This rather marvellous castle has been the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Argyll, Chiefs of the Clan Campbell, for many generations. 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. He resigned in 1809 due to ill health and died soon after. been returned to a representative of its ancient owners when she
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Of the sons of the 4th Duke, the eldest, the Marquess of Titchfield, was expected to have a brilliant career, smart and well placed. He contested this, and in 1818 was allowed a limited degree of sovereignty in Kniphausen and Varel, mostly concerning internal administration and external trade. But it was the second son, Lord John, who succeeded as 5th Duke of Portland in 1854, who captures the imagination of the most eccentric of the great aristocratic eccentrics of this period. In 1677, he was sent to England to formally ask for the hand of Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke of York (and his first cousin), and a year later Hans Willem himself married an English woman, Anne Villiers, a cousin of the Kings favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. The Langwell (Caithness) estate was acquired by the 5th Duke between 1857 and 1869. The tunnels connected the main house to the kitchen gardens, stables and a large riding houseequipped with gas lighting! (tbk-?VF6S=X>NP $0Hsw,}
X$:/hkvV 1825-1855: the 'Second Wave' of clearances and the Great Highland Famine. The 11th Earl was a direct descendent of William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck of the Holy Roman Empire, son of the 1st Earl of Portland by his second marriage. Included in this gallery are grand manor houses with a lot of history too. Rhoon Castle was built on a sandbank in about 1200, then rebuilt in the 1420s. He communicated via letter boxes all over the house, but really only occupied a small apartment, sparsely furnished, in one corner of one of the largest houses in Britain. THE SUTHERLANDS OF LANGWELL. Lord Titchfield, later 4th Duke of Portland, married in 1794 Henrietta Scott, heiress of the Balcomie (Fife) estate, whose trustees also acquired for her the Cessnock, Dean and Kilmanock estates in Ayrshire. 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. 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 Portland family owned the estate until a period of sales commencing in the 1790's. Best Price (Room Rates) Guarantee Check all reviews, photos, contact number & address of Duke of Portland Boathouse on the shore of Lake . It was enlarged again in the late 18th century with the addition of an English-style garden. The Kilmarnock Estate inheritance passed to Henrietta's daughters, her direct descendants. <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 594.96 842.04] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>>
We need now to travel back to the Netherlands, and back to the 18th century. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk. 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) He obtained from Parliament the right to build
The Bentincks did not hold on to it very long and sold it in the 1740s. an incredibly important nobleman who was Prime Minister in 1783 and
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. Following the French Revolution, the Whig Party fractured, and those who were not in favour of such rapid liberal advances shifted to support the more conservative William Pitt, led by the Duke of Portland (these became known as the Portland Faction). 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. Stuck on this Bloody Island 2. His residence, Huis t Velde, was an old moated manor house rebuilt by the Bentincks, located east of Warnsveld in another region of Gelderland, Zutphen. She was the daughter of Reverend Charles Bentincks younger brother, Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck. It gets this name from the four historic neighbouring ducal seats - Welbeck, Clumber, Thoresby, and Worksop Manor. Scotland is also well known for its castles. f0vi~e.
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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. 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. The titles, but not the lands, went to a distant cousin, Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, who became the 8th Duke at age 89 in 1977. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. One of his estates, Queensberry, includes the Lowther Hills and covers over 33,500 hectares. The Wellington Riding is an international competition venue and award-winning equestrian centre. The younger son of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, unsurprisingly also named William, was sent back to the Low Countries in 1719 to maintain the family estates and to occupy the family seat in the Estates of Holland as Baron van Rhoon. William Cavendish-Bentinck, the 6th Duke of Portland, had a more traditional aristocratic history: Master of the Horse under Conservative governments in the 1880s-90s, a Privy Councillor, and long-standing Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (from 1898-1939). In 1814, his superiors, supporting a full Bourbon restoration, sent him away from Sicily, north towards Tuscany where he was tasked with pushing out another of Napoleons sisters (Elisa) from her rule there. Connect with the University of Nottingham through social media and our blogs. The Grosvenor Estate comprises some 140,000 acres of land across Scotland and England (or perhaps very slightly less: 133,000 acres according to this recent Daily Mail article). She persuaded her husband to devote significant funds to improving the lives of miners on his Nottinghamshire estates. ), William Bentinck (1764-1813; Vice-Admiral), Lord Henry William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (1804-1870), Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1774-1839), Winifred Anna Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1863-1954). The dukedom became extinct in 1990, but not the earldom, which, by the terms of its creation passed to a collateral branch which had continued to reside in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries. He had no sons, but from a second marriage left three daughters: the eldest of these was Nina Cecilia, who seems to have preferred Cecilia, but Id love to know for certain. an incredibly important nobleman who was Prime Minister in 1783 and
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Edward VI gave the crumbling ruins to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury; his son, the 7th Earl, sold it in 1590 to his half-brother, Sir Charles Cavendish (son of the celebrated Bess of Hardwick). 1807. Hendrick also took on the important post of Drost of Salland, sort of equivalent in English to a local sheriff or seneschal. Sutherland Estates. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Jack Smith Estate Agents, Hove. Welbeck estate offers an inspiring environment in which to work, live and stay, with a thriving artisan food community, residential property and commercial lettings, all within a beautiful rural setting. Records kept by the Estate are therefore a valuable source for family history. The 3rd Duke was
While Marquis of Titchfield he sat in the House of Commons and later as Duke in the Lords, he had limited engagement with politics, which he left to his father, brother-in-law . 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. The caves are high up on the sides of a wonderful limestone gorge, with a lake at its base. the firm that sponsored the duke's Scottish Seniors Open - was hit by the housing slowdown. His subsidiary titles created in 1716 included Marquess of Titchfield, to be used for the heir. When the 4th Duke of Portland inherited the title in 1809, however, he quickly disposed of the estate. This is a list of the 30 present and extant dukes in the peerages of the Kingdom of England ,For a more complete historical listing, including extinct, dormant, abeyant, forfeit dukedoms in addition to these extant ones, see List of dukedoms in the peerages of the British Isles. This four-part series takes an in-depth look at the workings of some of Scotland's most magnificent country estates through the eyes of the current owners, the ghillies, the gardeners and the. There was a subterranean library and a grand billiards room. 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. ABOUT US. 1 bedroom flat for rent in Duke Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1AG, BN1 for 1,025 pcm. The 3rd Duke of Fife, who has died aged 85, inherited fortunes, titles and estates in Scotland from both sides of his . The future Queen Elizabeth II was born at the Strathmore home in Mayfair in April 1926. The local town retains a memory of its long British connections, with a pub named the Duke of Portland. William of Orange, and had been created Earl of Portland in 1689. Their eldest son, Charles (whose name was William Charles, but like his father went by Charles, and in fact signed his name WCC Bentinck), not thinking he would succeed to a dukedom, entered the church and became vicar for several parishes in Bedfordshire in the 1840s. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. many of the street names bear witness to his investment in the town
He and his wife remained in Nairobi, even after he became duke, as there were no lands to inherit in England. Episodes . 1851 - 1852 - Alexander Woodburn, Its territory was sandy and marshy and full of woods and heath, so was often a preferred hunting ground for Dutch nobles. It was significantly altered by the 2nd Duke of Portland in the 1740s, and by his wife who transformed its gardens into one of the most famous botanical gardens of its day, renowned for its rare exotic plants. A8083 13. played in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The Duke of Buccleuch has been selling off parts of his vast estate in recent years The continued dominance of the private estates in rural Scotland can't be underestimated, and they often. 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 two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. The church at Ellecom near Middachten became the burial place for this branch of the family. fax: +44 (0) 115 846 8651 9. From that point onwards, the Dukedom descended in an unbroken line as far as William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland. I have done extensive research using the rental records in particular, which cover Buccleuch estates in . Stephenson. Hendrick Bentinck rebuilt and enlarged it in the 1630s. The family have been based in Inveraray since the early 15th century. 'North west view of Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire', by F. Chantrey R.A., 1823. name to Cavendish-Bentinck when, in 1766, he married the Dorothy
But after a succession dispute between two brothers, Willem Gustaf and Jan Carel (the former of whom had married a local farmers daughter), the two properties were sold to the Grand Duke in 1854, for 2 million thaler. Search through trusted Scottish sporting estates and providers offering all country sports in Scotland from game shooting - including pheasant, partridge, woodcock, and pigeon, as well as grouse and ptarmigan which are distinct to the British Isles. 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. 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. 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