William Cavendish-Bentinck
British politician
Died when: 71 years 199 days (858 months)Star Sign: Aries
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era.
He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and twice as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809).
The gap of 26 years between his two terms as Prime Minister is the longest of any British Prime Minister.He was also the fourth great-grandfather of King Charles III through his great-granddaughter Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Portland was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield.He held a title for every degree of British nobility: duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
He was the leader of the Portland Whigs faction, which broke with the Whig leadership of Charles James Fox and joined with William Pitt the Younger in the wake of the French Revolution.
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