Social Victorians/People/Cavendish Bentinck

Also Known As

 * Family name: Cavendish-Bentinck
 * Cavendish-Bentinck is the family name of the Duke of Portland.
 * 1st Baroness Bolsover, of Bolsover Castle, co. Derby [U.K.], created 23 April 1880
 * Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne, 1st Baroness Bolsover (23 April 1880 – 7 August 1893)
 * Mary Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck and Arthur (John Arthur) James married in 1885; they are on this page.
 * Henry James, Baron of Hereford is on the Baron James of Hereford page.
 * William Dodge James, who married Evelyn Elizabeth Forbes, is on the William James page.

Organizations
=== Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck ===
 * Eton College
 * Christchurch, Oxford
 * Member of Parliament, Conservative (1886–1892; 1910–1929)
 * Boer War (1899–1900)
 * Derbyshire Yeomanry
 * Gallipoli Campaign

Timeline
1880 February 23, Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck was granted the rank of a duke's younger son.

1885 December 7, Mary Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck and John Arthur James married.

1892 January 27, Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Lady Olivia Caroline Amelia Taylour married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Lady Olivia Cavendish-Bentinck attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck, Mrs. Mary Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck James and Mr. Arthur James. (Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck is #262 in the list of people who attended; Lady Olivia Cavendish-Bentinck is #263; Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck is #543; Mrs. Mary James is #318; and Mr. Arthur James is #480.)

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Lord Henry Bentinck is Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Lady Henry Bentinck is Lady Olivia Cavendish-Bentinck.

Lord Henry and Lady Olivia Cavendish Bentinck
Lafayette's portrait (left) of "Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck as the King of Poland; Lady Olivia Caroline Amelia Cavendish Bentinck (née Taylour) as Mademoiselle Ixe" in costume is photogravure #236 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lord Henry Bentinck as the King of Poland. Lady Henry Bentinck as Mademoiselle Ixe."

Lord Henry Bentinck
Lord Henry Bentinck was dressed as Stanislaus Auguste, King of Poland:


 * "Count Poneatowski (afterwards King of Poland)" in the Court in the procession of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
 * "Lord Henry Bentinck, as Stanislas Auguste, King of Poland, [was] in green velvet and white satin."
 * "(Stanislaus Auguste, King of Poland), coat, green velvet, with large turned-back skirts and turned-up cuffs, handsomely and richly embroidered with silver; long white satin vest, richly embroidered in silver; white cloth breeches; steel cuirass, with shoulder and thigh pieces inlaid with silver; white silk sash, fringed with gold round waist, and bowed on left side; blue moiré ribbon and order worn over right shoulder."

Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski (17 January 1732 – 12 February 1798) was Stanislaus II Augustus, King of Poland (1764–1795) during the reign of Catherine II of Russia. He was less successful as a king than as a patron of the arts. The portrait of Stanislaus II Augustus (right) was painted by Per Krafft the Elder in around 1767 and has been in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw since 1947, when they acquired it from Mieczysław Kotarbiński (1890-1943).

Lady Olivia Cavendish Bentinck
The printing on the Lafayette portrait in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire says that Lady Olivia Bentinck went to the ball as Mademoiselle Ixe, but the Times, the Morning Post, and the Guernsey Star say she was in the Court of Catherine II of Russia. Because of conventions of scissors-and-paste editing, it cannot be assumed that the newspapers confirm each other. Mademoiselle Ixe is a novella by Mary Elizabeth Hawker (29 January 1848 – 16 June 1908) published in 1890 under the pseudonym Lanoe Falconer as the first volume of the Fisher Unwin Pseudonym Library series. The novella was popular, reprinted and translated a number of times, and attracted critical attention. An 1893 copy in Google Books digitized from the New York Public Library can be found here.


 * Lady Henry Bentinck was among the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court in the Empress Catherine II of Russia procession.
 * "Lady Raincliffe took the part of Catherine II. of Russia in a dress of white satin. The front was wrought in raised gold in a large pattern of conventionalised pomegranate spinging [sic] from a crown raised in gold at the hem, the fruit studded with rubies. In her suite were Lady Margaret Spicer as Countess Soltykoff, the Duchess of Marlborough in a superbly-handsome dress of the same period; the Duchess of Newcastle; Lady Henry Bentinck; the Countess of Yarborough; Lady Mildred Denison; and the Hon. Mrs. Erskine and her daughter."

Lady Ottoline Cavendish Bentinck
Lady Ottoline Cavendish-Bentinck attended with Lord and Lady Cavendish-Bentinck. At another time, Lady Ottoline Cavendish Bentinck accompanied Lady Bolsover to a social event.

Mrs. Arthur James
Mrs. Arthur (Mary Venetia) James was dressed as Elisabeth Cavendish according to the Commemorative Album and the Morning Post. She is described more generally as a Maid of Honor to Queen Elizabeth by the St. James's Gazette and the Evening Standard.


 * Mrs. Arthur James was dressed as Elisabeth Cavendish in the Queen Elizabeth procession.
 * "Mrs. Arthur James [was one of the] maids of honour of the same [Elizabethan] period; ... in blue and gold, wearing long hanging sleeves. Lady Battersea’s brocade was more than a hundred years old; with it was a train of green velvet."


 * "Mrs. Arthur James, another Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, was in a robe of very handsome broché of blue and gold, with long, hanging sleeves trimmed with gold. The revers of the skirt were of turquoise blue, with large crevés and bows of old blue satin ribbon."

Henry Bullingham's portrait of "Mary Venetia James (née Cavendish-Bentinck) as Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of Bess of Hardwick" in costume is photogravure #241 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Mrs Arthur James as Elizabeth Cavendish daughter of Bess of Hardwick," with a Long S in Bess.

Elizabeth Cavendish was Elizabeth Stuart, Countess of Lennox (1555–1582), daughter of Bess of Hardwick and her second husband Sir William Cavendish, born at Chatsworth House. Although Elizabeth Cavendish had been a Lady of the Bedchamber of Queen Elizabeth, her sudden marriage to Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox put them both in Elizabeth's disfavor.

Mr. A. or Arthur James
Mr. Arthur James was dressed as an "English gentleman of the fifteenth century," wearing a "doublet, white brocade slashed on chest and puffed with white silk; breeches white brocade; pink silk sash worn over left shoulder; large pink cloak; handsome Vandyke collar and cuffs."

Nationality

 * Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne, 1st Baroness Bolsover: Irish
 * Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, British

Residences

 * Underley Hall, Kirby, Lonsdale, Westmorland

Family

 * Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck (10 May 1819 – 11 December 1877)
 * Elizabeth Sophia Hawkins-Whitshed ( – 4 January 1858)
 * William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland (28 December 1857 – 26 April 1943)
 * Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne, 1st Baroness Bolsover (8 November 1834 – 7 August 1893)
 * Lt.-Col. Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (28 May 1863 – 6 October 1931)
 * Major Lord William Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck (31 January 1865 – 4 November 1903)
 * Lt.-Col. Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (7 October 1868 – 19 June 1956)
 * Lady Ottoline Violet Ann Cavendish-Bentinck (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938)


 * Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (28 May 1863 – 6 October 1931)
 * Lady Olivia Caroline Amelia Taylour (22 January 1869 – 26 November 1939)

Separate Branch of the Cavendish-Bentinck family

 * Mary Venetia Cavendish-Bentinck ( – 2 May 1948)
 * Arthur (John Arthur) James (24 February 1853 – 30 April 1917)

Relations

 * Lady Olivia Cavendish-Bentinck's father was Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective
 * Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck's mother was Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne, 1st Baroness Bolsover
 * Lady Ottoline Bentinck accompanied Lady Bolsover, until 1893 her mother, Augusta, Lady Bolsover to one of the big social events.

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Henry Cavendish-Bentinck became Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck in 1880.