William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield
| Marquess of Titchfield | |
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| Member of Parliament for Bletchingley | |
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In office 27 February 1819 – 9 January 1822 |
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| Preceded by |
George Tennyson Sir William Curtis |
| Succeeded by |
Lord Francis Leveson-Gower Edward Henry Edwardes |
| Member of Parliament for King's Lynn | |
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In office 9 January 1822 – 5 March 1824 |
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| Preceded by |
Sir Martin ffolkes Lord Walpole |
| Succeeded by |
John Walpole Marquess of Titchfield |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 August 1796 Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire |
| Died | 5 March 1824 (aged 27) St. James's Square, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield (21 August 1796 – 5 March 1824)—styled Viscount Woodstock until 1809—was a British Member of Parliament (MP) and peer. Born into the noble Bentinck family, his grandfather William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, served as both Prime Minister of Great Britain and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Expected to succeed his father as the fifth Duke of Portland, Titchfield died at only 27 years old.
Henry was the first child of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, and his wife Henrietta (née Scott). His father was the grandson of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, while his mother, Henrietta, was one of three daughters and heiresses born to Scottish General John Scott. Upon their marriage, the family name became Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck.
In honour of the birth of his first grandson, the Third Duke of Portland commissioned the Portland Baptismal Font, the only known gold font commissioned for private use in England. Designed by landscaper Humphrey Repton and crafted by Paul Storr, it stayed in the Bentinck family until 1986, when it was acquired by the British Museum.
Henry — referred to by his second name as all the males in the family were named William—was styled as the Marquess of Titchfield in 1809, when his father succeeded to the dukedom.
After private education at home, Titchfield went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1815. Under headmaster Edmund Goodenough, Titchfield excelled academically and distinguished himself in classical literature. "Few men entered the 'world's great stage' with brighter prospects before them. His character, thus eminent and unsullied at the place of his education, was afterwards destined to display itself with no less brilliancy in the senate of his country, to which an honourable ambition incited him to display the talents, so useful and conspicuous, with which nature and application had endowed him," praised the Rev. Thomas Maurice after his death.
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