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Bentinck, Lord George 1802-48
English politician
Born at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the son of the 4th Duke of Portland, he joined the army in 1819 and from 1822 to 1825 was private secretary to his uncle, George Canning, then Foreign Secretary. He entered parliament in 1828, supported Catholic emancipation and the Reform Bill, but left the Whigs in 1834 to form a separate parliamentary group with Lord Stanley (Edward, 14th Earl of Derby). On Robert Peel's third betrayal of his party in introducing free-trade measures, Bentinck, supported by Disraeli who idolized him, led the Tory opposition to Peel. A great lover of racing and field sports, he stamped out many dishonest turf practices.
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