Constituency Dates
Droitwich 4 Jan. 1742 – 1747
Grampound 1747 – 1754
Malmesbury 1754 – 1 Mar. 1759
Family and Education
b. 24 Dec. 1715, 2nd s. of Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland, by Lady Elizabeth Noel, da. and coh. of Wriothesley Baptist, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough. educ. Eton 1725-8; Grand Tour 1739. m. 29 June 1753, Mary Davies, s.p.
Offices Held

Ensign 1 Ft. Gds. 1735, capt. lt. 1743, capt. and lt.-col. 1745; col. and a.d.c. to George II 1752; col. 5 Ft. 1754 – d.

Address
Main residence: Hall Place, Heston, Mdx.
biography text

Bentinck did not stand at the 1741 general election - the first after his coming of age - but at the end of the year he was simultaneously offered a seat at Droitwich vacated by Thomas Winnington and invited by the Government to contest the Westminster by-election.1Mrs. Delany, Autobiog. and Corresp. ii. 183-4. On the advice of his family he chose Droitwich, for which he was returned unopposed, voting regularly with the Government. Brought in by the Administration for Grampound in 1747, he applied in 1750 to Newcastle for a colonelcy, ‘as I have always served his Majesty with cheerfulness’.214 Aug. 1750, Add. 32722, f. 147.

He died 1 Mar. 1759.

Author
R.R.S.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Mrs. Delany, Autobiog. and Corresp. ii. 183-4.
  • 2. 14 Aug. 1750, Add. 32722, f. 147.