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The Reverend Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (8 November 1817 – 17 August 1865) was a great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. His significance lies in his position as a royal ancestor, and in his own connections by birth to three powerful British ducal families. ==Family== He was born the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charles Bentinck〔(Charles Cavendish ) 〕 and Anne Wellesley, formerly Lady Abdy.〔(Anne Wellesley ) 〕 His paternal grandparents were William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, another Prime Minister, by his marriage to Lady Charlotte Boyle, a daughter of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Cavendish-Bentinck's maternal grandparents were Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and his wife Hyacinthe-Gabrielle Roland, for many years an actress at the Palais Royal. Lord Wellesley, a former Governor-General of India, was an older brother of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, yet another Prime Minister.〔 (Subscription required)〕 Thus, between his own paternal and maternal connections, Cavendish-Bentinck was related to three dukes, all prime ministers, and to several other aristocratic families. However, as a younger son, he had little expectation at birth of succeeding to his grandfather's Dukedom, with his father's eldest brother having fathered several sons. He thus became a Church of England clergyman and made two unexceptional marriages, the second into a family of the landed gentry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (priest)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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