Family
He was born the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charles Bentinck and Anne Wellesley, formerly Lady Abdy.
His paternal grandparents were William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Dorothy Cavendish.
His maternal grandparents were Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and his wife Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, an actress at the Palais Royal for many years. Lord Wellesley, a former Governor-General of India, was an older brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, another Prime Minister.
His paternal grandmother Dorothy Cavendish was a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (another Prime Minister), and Lady Charlotte Boyle.
Thus between his own paternal and maternal connections, he was related to three dukes (the highest-ranking British peers) and several other aristocratic families. However, as a younger scion, he had little expectation of succeeding to the title, with his father's eldest brother having fathered several sons. He thus became a clergyman and had two unexceptional marriages, the second into minor landed gentry.
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