Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785

LC control no.	nr 95012404
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley, Duchess of Portland, 1715-1785 Portland, Duchess of, 1715-1785 Harley, Margaret Cavendish, 1715-1785
Associated country	Great Britain
Located	Gerrards Cross (England)
Birth date	17150211
Death date	17850717
Place of birth	London (England)
Field of activity	Natural history--Catalogs and collections
Profession or occupation	Art objects--Collectors and collecting
Found in	Receipts relating to physic and surgery, ms., ca. 1750: t.p. ("those marked with M.P. experienced by My Lady Duchess"). RLIN, 3-33-95 (hdgs.: Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley, Duchess of, 1714-1785; Portland, Margaret Cavendish Harley, Duchess of, 1715-1785; Portland, Margaret Cavendish Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785; usage: Duchess Dowager of Portland; Margaret, Duchess of Portland; Duchess of Portland) DNB: II, 302 (under son, Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Portland: Margaret Cavendish Harley, only daughter and heiress of last Earl of Oxford) Cokayne, G. Complete peerage: X, p. 592-593 (under husband, 2nd Duke, William Bentinck, Duke of Portland: Margaret Cavendish, only d. and h. of Edward (Harley), 2nd Earl of Oxford; b. Feb. 11, 1714/5; d. July 17, 1785) NYPL files (Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles (Harley) Bentinck, Duchess of, 1714-1785) Oxford DNB online, 5 Aug. 2014 (Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland (1715-1785), collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of arts and sciences; born 11 February 1715 in London; married on 11 June 1734, to William Bentinck, second duke of Portland (1709-1762); the couple settled at Bulstrode, near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, where for the next fifty years she devoted her time and energy, and much of her wealth, to the formation of an immense collection embracing natural history, in its broadest sense, and the fine arts, stored at Bulstrode; she died at Bulstrode on 17 July 1785)