It's notable that in 1807 William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland, then prime minister, set up a Christmas tree at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, ‘for a juvenile party’.
the third Duke of Portland
another LOOK at the CaVenDish BenTinck Connection
Lady Ottoline Morrell & William Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland 1935
from the NPG, here
from the NPG, here
from TURBERVILLE:
There are 2 main strands in OTTOLINE"S GENEALOGY. The CAVENDISH line goes back to TUDOR times and BESS of HARDKWICK, whose second husband was Sir William Cavendish and whose last husband was the Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury.
Bess' second youngest son, WILLIAM CAVENDISH, founded the DEVONSHIRE, or senior side of the Newcastle line which descended through a series of Heiresses until 1734 when William CAVENDISH, the Second Duke of Portland, married Margeret Cavendish-Holles-Harley, Ottoline's great-great-grandmother.
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland,by James Seymour
Margaret, Duchess of Portland ,by Michael Dahl
William Bentinck was the grandson of Hans Willem Bentinck, who came over to England in 188 with WILLIAM of ORANGE (WM III of England).
Hans Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, by Michael Dahl
Hans Willem, a younger member of an old DUTCH family, was a close friend of William III, who created him Earl of Portland. Hans Willem's son Henry was made First Duke of Portland by GEORGE I (mainly because of Hans Willem's efforts in the Hanoverian cause)
first LOOK from OTTOLINE DIVINE on the Connections- Here & Here
read Treasure Hunt for all Derbyshire postings here & the Bess of Hardwick and Wm. Cavendish portraits from there as well
some images & more information at the peerage here
QUO FATA VOCANT
"where FATE calls"
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Bentinck commanding the 7th Dragoon Guards
painted 1854-1857
by John Ferneley II
& below, Ferneley's
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Bentinck,
painted in 1854
Both paintings by Ferneley are of Ottoline Morrell's father more here, tremendous No?
the paintings are at the York Army Museum
3 Tower Street, York, North Yorkshire, England, YO1 9SB
photo credits: The Military Museum of the Royal Dragoon Guards
32 Grosvenor Road, In her Own Words
...after honeymooning in Italy, visiting friends, the lovely Berensons, ah-that is a story for another day. We settled into married life. Settled, a word that unsettles me, I confess.
"The first months of our return home were spent in settling into our house 32 Grosvenor Road. We went before that to No. 36, a furnished house belonging to Percy Feilding." Doing, Assembling staff and arranging household matters.
Philip went to his office- while I busied myself with decoration and establishment of the house. I would meet Philip for luncheon and in the evenings Philip would read aloud to me-poetry, sometimes Gibbons, sometimes Macaulay's History.
" I had a sitting room on one of the top floors overlooking the river. (the Thames)" Perched so high-it seemed as if I were suspended over the water.
"I loved to watch the blue evening lights and the yellow gas lamps and see the great barges being pulled up the river, the men's figures outlined against the lights."
I filled this room and my boudoir with silk pillows and my many books-
"There was always endless work in arranging our house, which really became very lovely. The drawing room was panelled pale grey, and the curtains a vivid rose-pink Chinese silk."
(designer Veere Greeney's rooms evoke something of a sense of the rooms as they might have been)
"Quite surprising, Philip has had great energy and taste, and devoted himself to making our little house perfect. His taste was so architectural and accurate, at first it was quite bewildering to me, who was not accustomed to so much care in details of furnishing and house decoration,
but I soon learn my lesson and was stimulated to many developments of my own, more romantic and wilder inventions , he curbing and pruning."
Those more romantic ,wilder inventions would return, time and time again at home and in my heart.
(in writing this story-I have used Quotation Marks to indicate OTTOLINE'S Words. All other text is my own-assuming Otts. Voice)
"The first months of our return home were spent in settling into our house 32 Grosvenor Road. We went before that to No. 36, a furnished house belonging to Percy Feilding." Doing, Assembling staff and arranging household matters.
Philip went to his office- while I busied myself with decoration and establishment of the house. I would meet Philip for luncheon and in the evenings Philip would read aloud to me-poetry, sometimes Gibbons, sometimes Macaulay's History.
Gibbon writes
"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
I took this to heart & threw myself into decorating the rooms of No. 32.
from Every Women's Encyclopaedia
Georges Lemmen, Views of the Thames, 1892.
"I loved to watch the blue evening lights and the yellow gas lamps and see the great barges being pulled up the river, the men's figures outlined against the lights."
I filled this room and my boudoir with silk pillows and my many books-
"There was always endless work in arranging our house, which really became very lovely. The drawing room was panelled pale grey, and the curtains a vivid rose-pink Chinese silk."
(designer Veere Greeney's rooms evoke something of a sense of the rooms as they might have been)
"Quite surprising, Philip has had great energy and taste, and devoted himself to making our little house perfect. His taste was so architectural and accurate, at first it was quite bewildering to me, who was not accustomed to so much care in details of furnishing and house decoration,
but I soon learn my lesson and was stimulated to many developments of my own, more romantic and wilder inventions , he curbing and pruning."
Those more romantic ,wilder inventions would return, time and time again at home and in my heart.
(in writing this story-I have used Quotation Marks to indicate OTTOLINE'S Words. All other text is my own-assuming Otts. Voice)
I MARRY
OUR Wedding
February 8th, 1902
the MARRIAGE of
Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
to
Philip Morrell
St. Peter's Eaton Square.
inside St. Peter's
OTTOLINE in 1903
the Groom & the Bride
O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
lowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne,
that theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
whom thou forevermore dost join in one.
O perfect Life, be thou their full assurance,
of tender charity and steadfast faith,
of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
with childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
and to life's day the glorious unknown morrow
that dawns upon eternal love and life.
lowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne,
that theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
whom thou forevermore dost join in one.
O perfect Life, be thou their full assurance,
of tender charity and steadfast faith,
of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
with childlike trust that fears nor pain nor death.
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife,
and to life's day the glorious unknown morrow
that dawns upon eternal love and life.
Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney, 1883
PHILIP
photographed in 1903 by George Beresford
The Brides Maids
my NIECE
Victoria Cavendish-Bentinck, from 1916
portriat by de Laszlo
My Cousin
Lady Violet Manners (Charteris)
portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1916
( daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland (sister of Marjorie Manners, Marchioness of Anglesey, and Lady Diana Manners, who married Duff Cooper).
also- Philip's neice, Dorothy Warren
William Cavendish-Bentinck,
No one could have been kinder or more generous than my family were to me. My brother-Portland gave Me away.
6th Duke of Portland, photograph by Elliott & Fry, 1900
2 of MY BRothers
Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck & Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck
photograph by Alexander Bassano, 1900
at the wedding told Philip, My youngest brother Lord Charles told Philip, 'Well, I am glad, I am not in your shoes. I wouldn't undertake her for anything.'
Nor did My Lord Charles deliver a present.
A new thoroughly independent Life had begun.
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