His successor completely rebuilt the house in the 1860s, and it then passed to the Ramsden family who later sold it in the 1950s. It was acquired in the late 17th century by the Van Keppel family (interestingly, rivals of the Bentincks in England), and today serves as a conference centre for the regional police service. All of the various Dutch baronial lines of the House of Bentinck were confirmed as barons de lEmpire in 1813, and when this fell, they were confirmed as barons of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands. 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. 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 Bentinck estates were, however, largely disposed of by sale in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The illegitimate son of the last Count of Oldenburg was given two Frisian lordships, Kniphausen and Varel, both on the North Sea coast on an inlet in the mouth of Weser, on either side of the future port city of Wilhelmshaven (not founded until 1869). Bolsover Castle is associated most with the 1st Duke of Newcastle, so will be looked at more closely in a different blog post. Part of the reason for selling the Titchfield estate was the acquisition in the 1730s of a much more extensive portfolio by the 2nd Duke of Portland. The 10th Duke of Buccleuch and 12th Duke of Queensberry is Richard Scott, who, along with his family, is Britain's largest private landowner. She persuaded her husband to devote significant funds to improving the lives of miners on his Nottinghamshire estates. He was an original governor of the Foundling Hospital in London, founded in 1739, and was made a Knight of the Garter in 1741. noble family from Holland. The Portland family owned the estate until a period of sales commencing in the 1790's. 'Welbeck, Nottinghamshire', by T. Malton, published 1788. They were elevated to the rank of illustrious highness within the German aristocracy. Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire was originally built in 1686 by Judge Jefferies. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. 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. noble family from Holland. The Duke of Westminster. with the carriages being drawn by horses. Lord Oxford sold Wimpole, and on his death in 1741 the Harley estates in Herefordshire (Brampton Bryan etc.) The local town retains a memory of its long British connections, with a pub named the Duke of Portland. Estates in 1883: 43,036 acres in Nottinghamshire; 12,337 acres in Northumberland; 8,074 acres in Derbyshire; 903 acres in Lincolnshire; 591 acres in Norfolk; 9 acres in Worcestershire; 5 acres in Buckinghamshire; 101,000 acres in Caithness; 17,244 acres in Ayrshire; worth a total of 88,350 a year. The rugged landscape of the Queensberry Estate is the ideal location for windfarms and Buccleuch have helped facilitate these in the local area, including the two turbines now owned by the community group Propel.In addition, the former opencast mine site at Glenmuckloch has potential for a pumped storage hydro system. BO&lfLYAqhF? w]I11q=)>6z;0F lzb@/W +~:ZXu{I>Q5m *kS9TF)D\>~]oQ,Kmrv6L={FXxB7zs(&X0(q53K&z)1S0<1/7t6E].5~\r\Y!h=98`A %[SEeS[74r1_`(F~=R\#fs5:ny`B` 5_ge_Mmx[ u;#ymA2K=d a^i)tUX"cpCBV!a~cX{>X0\2SqgR5lKAWWQ$|5x"mLUU%,]Ndz0-m~|2='[1a2 dEq6c]%UD3,Ph 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. The Lyon family were Angus landowners from the 14th century, created Baron Glamis in 1445, and Earl of Kinghorne (later adding Strathmore) in 1606. Cavendish set about rebuilding the castle, more as a pleasure palace than a defensive structure, but it was his son, William, who turned Bolsover into the real gem we see today. Unlike most of his family, he had little interest in politics, and it soon became apparent that he didnt like people at all. Todays castle at Kniphausen is a re-purposed former stables and is in private hands. Duke of Buccleuch Richard Scott Estate Buccleuch Estates 2017/18 subsidies 2m Mahdi al-Tajir Estate Blackford 2017/18 subsidies 1.636m Scott's wealth has been estimated at about. Then there is Cessnock Castle, near Galston, Ayrshire, where the Duke and Duchess had not stayed for many years till 1906. Hans Willem Bentinck was one of the leading supporters of Williams accession to the English and Scottish thrones; created earl of Portland, his son was elevated further as duke of Portland in 1716. Hans Willem Bentincks eldest surviving son, Henry, carried on the family legacy as a chief supporter of the Whig political agenda in Britainthat is a limited, Protestant monarchyand was therefore created 1st Duke of Portland by the new Hanoverian regime in 1716. This information will help us make improvements to the website. A Highland fling with the Dukes ofGordon, Lost Princes of France: The Courtenays, from Latin Emperors to Earls ofDevon. Scullery Sue 12. 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. Welbeck is one of the great traditional landed estates, nestled within Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. But the Duke did not entertain. Over three centuries later, one family, the Bentincks, still benefit from this relatively brief merging of national interests. 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. Hans Willem, Lord of Rhoons connections to England started earlier than the Anglo-Dutch Moment of 1688-89. But by this point, Portland had been supplanted as the Kings favourite by another Dutchman, Arnold van Keppel, and he resigned his court offices in 1699, and he mostly retired to his country estate at Bulstrode Park, though he did continue to carry out duties in the next reign, that of Queen Anne. Visited by thousands every year, the castle was the stand-in for "Duneagle" in the . Almost all the males in the family were named William (in honour of their original patron in England), but usually went by their second name; in this case he used William, while his older brother the Duke was William Henry, and his younger brother, William Charles, used Charles (see below). The duke's 96,000 acre estate say it costs between 20,000 and 30,000-a-year to maintain the lodge. The 10th Duke of Roxburghe has died at the age of 64 following a lengthy battle with cancer, his family has announced. But he died of a brain abscess before he reached thirty. Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. As a result, all his honours became extinct on his death in 1688. 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. He inherited the Kilmarnock estate in 1795 when he married the firm that sponsored the duke's Scottish Seniors Open - was hit by the housing slowdown. At nearly 80 years old., the 5th Duke had outlived his two closest male heirs, his cousins Charles and Arthur. The same is true for the castle further to the north at Kniphausen. The two lordships were joined together as a county by the Emperor in 1653. He was Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex for nearly a half century, and married a Scottish heiress, Henrietta Scott (so added another name to his surname), and purchased Fullarton House in Ayrshire, 1805, as his Scottish residence, and invested in the nearby port of Troon. 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). The Bentinck family had originally been an ancient and Today Gary Ramsay Bentinck (b. In 1904, Claude and Cecilia succeeded as 14th Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and raised their large brood of children (10) at Glamis Castle in Angus, or at estates in County Durham (Gibside Hall) or Hertfordshire (the enormous country seat of St Pauls Walden Bury, between Luton and Stevenage). He was recalled to Britain but surprisingly went unpunished. Theres no danger of this family becoming extinct any time soon, always maintaining a foot in England and a foot in the Netherlands. The younger branch added to their aristocratic lustre first in the Netherlands by incorporating the succession of the Reede-Ginckel family, earls of Athlone (created in 1692 for another one of William IIIs generals, Godert van Ginckel van Reede; extinct 1844) by inheritance in the 1840s; then by gaining the lands of the counts of Limpurg-Gaildorf by marriage in the 1860s. 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. 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. South-Western Company. 1 bedroom flat for rent in Duke Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1AG, BN1 for 1,025 pcm. Episodes . Welbeck passed down through the Cavendishes into the Portland line of descent, and ultimately became the main seat of the Dukes of Portland. QUEENSBERRY ESTATE RENEWABLE ENERGY. The modern estate of Langwell was formerly known as Berriedale, and was possessed by two families of Sutherlands .Those of the first family, descended from John Begg, son of Nicolas, Earl of Sutherland, were styled "Sutherlands of Berriedale", and the other family . daughter of the Earl of Errol and granddaughter of William Boyd the This alternative title died with him in 1698. After the great re-organisations of the 1800s and 1810s there was some consolidation on Highland estates, as managers and owners hoped the crofting population would bed-down into their new lots and employment (principally fishing and the production of kelp). It was sold by his heirs to Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, who made it one of his principal residences, and indeed died there in 1709. On the death of the 5th Duke in 1879 most of the estates passed to the cousin who succeeded him as 6th Duke, but part of the Ayrshire estates were divided between the 5th Duke's sisters, Lady Ossington and Lady Howard de Walden, the latter also inheriting the Marylebone property. He criminalised the practice of sati (a widows self-immolation on her husbands funeral pyre) and female infanticide; passed stronger laws against organised crime; passed the English Education Act (replacing Persian as the language of high courts); and founded the Calcutta Medical College. Bulstrude Park is located in Buckinghamshire, not far from Beaconsfield (and surprisingly close to the M40 motorway!). He obtained from Parliament the right to build The 4th Duke sold Bulstrode Park in 1811, to the Duke of Somerset. The 4th Duke sold Balcomie but increased the Ayrshire estates by purchase, notably Fullarton in 1803. email: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk. In the 1670s, to get closer to the seats of power in the province of Holland, he acquired the lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht. Nottingham, NG7 2NR, telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4565 The French Empire built by Napoleon eventually extended its reach to the North Sea, and incorporated the County of Aldenburg in 1810. The Wellington Riding is an international competition venue and award-winning equestrian centre. Family members include the 5th Duke of Portland, the famous 'burrowing duke.' The 5th Duke spent his time and wealth at Welbeck, commissioning an impressive range of buildings which included a maze of underground tunnels. "for the improvement of I focus primarily as an academic on the early modern period and France, but my interests range from early medieval Ireland to 20th-century Russia. I am also a musician and an avid traveler. N]t([rEKe0X_!kYPvw^({PoHE2ZF"G";$gF#j'dRF?2&3I!Dh4>q9Sopf5tZj"' k(,.rh{t_/ Via Grosvenor Estates, the 62-year-old Duke is the richest property developer in the UK. 'North west view of Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire', by F. Chantrey R.A., 1823. passed to a cousin, but his widow continued in possession of the Welbeck estates, which on her death in 1755 passed to her daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley. 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. >C[(E|zVsA!V|> R*286q!7{W.%:$ O7/&*qmz9ivm9('P ?Q(D+4hU-Sw be inherited by a descendant of Henrietta's. There has been a moated manor house here, near the town of Raalte, since the 1380s. and was very well informed about their condition. . Bulstrode Park was particularly renowned for its formal landscaped gardens. . Tommy 4. At Buccleuch, we are dedicated to supporting the communities we live and work within, respecting the environment, and contributing to rural culture through our heritage for generations to come. The Newcastle line ended in the male line in 1690, and its chief heiress, Margaret, married the politician John Holles, Earl of Clare, for whom the Newcastle title was revived in 1694. 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