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380 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Sisters living, Henrietta, b. 1798. Charlotte, b. 1806, m. 1827, Viscount Ossington. Lucy, b. 1807, m. 1828, the 6th Baron Howard de Walden. Patron of thirteen livings, Hendon, V. Middlesex. Hucknall Torkard, V. Sutton- on-Lound, V. Cotham, D. Kirkby-in-Ashfield, R. Sibthorpe, D. Nottinghamshire. Bredon, R. Worcestershire. Elsworth, R. Cambridgeshire. Whitwell, R. Elmton, V. Bolsover, V. Derbyshire. Bothal, R. Northumberland, and with others Gotham, R. Nottinghamshire. Creations, Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, and Baron of Cirencester, 1689, Duke of Portland and Marquess of Titchfleld, 1716, all in the peerage of Great Britain. , Quarterly : 1st and 4th, grand quarters ; quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure, a cross- moline, argent, Bentinck; 2nd and 3rd, sable, three stags' heads cabossed, argent, a cres- cent for difference, Cavendish; 2nd and 3rd, grand quarters, or, on a bend, azure, a star of six points, between two crescents, gold, within a bordure engrailed, gules, Scott. (Crests, 1st, out of a marquess's coronet, proper, two arms, counter-embowed, vested, gules, on the hands, gloves, or, each holding an ostrich feather, or, Bentinck; 2nd, a snake nowed, proper, Cavendish. Supporters, Two lions, double queued, the dexter, or; the sinister, sable. Seats, Welbeck -abbey, Worksop, Nottinghamshire ; Fullarton-house, Troon, Ayrshire" Langwell, Goldspie, Caithness, and Bothal-castle, Northumberland. Town Residences, Harcourt-house, 19, Cavendish-square, W.; 13, Hyde- park-gardens, W. Clubs, Boodle' s, Brooks' s, Travellers', White' s. PORTLAND, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, William Henry Cavendish, F.R.S. 4th Duke of Portland. He was b. June 24, 1768, and succeeded his father, Oct. 30, 1809 : was Lord Lieut, of Middlesex : m. Aug. 4, 1795, Henrietta, daughter of the late Major-Gen. Scott, and sister of the 1st Viscountess Canning, (she d. 1844) : and d, March 27, 1854, having had issue four sons and five daughters. PORTMAN, VISCOUNT. (PORTMAN.) EDWARD BERKELEY PORTMAN, 1st Viscount, son of Edward Berkeley Port- man, Esq. of Brvanston. Born July 9th, 1799; educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826) ; sat as M.P. for Dorsetshire, 182333, and for Marylebone, 1833 ; is Lord Warden of the Stannaries, one of the Council of the Duchy of Lan- caster and of the Duchy of Cornwall a Magistrate for Middlesex and Somerset, and a Magistrate and Vice Lieut, of Dorset and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for that county, and Master Forester of Dartmoor ; was for twenty-six years Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of Somerset: married (1827) Lady Emma Lascelles, 3rd daughter of the 2nd Earl of Harewood, (this lady died, 1865), and has issue, living, Sons, William Henry Berkeley, M.P., *. 1829; educated at Eton, and at Merton College, Oxford; was Col. of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry, 1854 72-, is a Dep. Lieut, for Somersetshire and Dorsetshire, and has been M.P. for the latter county (L.) since 1857, having represented Shaftesbury from 1852 until that year : m. 1855, the Hon. Mary Selina Charlotte Wentworth Fitzwilliam, daughter of the late Viscount Milton, son of the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam, and has, with other issue, Edward William Berkeley, b. 1856. Residences, Durweston, near Blandford; 22, Portman- square, W. Clubs, Brooks's, Travellers'. Edwin Berkeley, b. 1830. Maurice Berkeley, b. 1833, m. 1st, 1856; 2ndly, 1867. The Rev. Walter Berkeley, b. 1836, m, 1864. Daughter, Lucy Ella, 6.1831.