Bentinck, Lord George, statesman and sportsman, a member of the Portland family; entered Parliament as a Whig, turned Conservative on the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832; served under Sir Robert Peel; assumed the leadership of the party as a Protectionist when Sir Robert Peel became a Free-trader, towards whom he conceived a strong personal animosity; died suddenly; the memory of him owes something to the memoir of his life by Lord Beaconsfield (1802‒1848).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bentham, Jeremy * Bentinck, Lord William Henry Cavendish