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Bentinck

American  
[ben-tingk] / ˈbɛn tɪŋk /

noun

  1. William Henry Cavendish, Duke of Portland, 1738–1809, British statesman: prime minister 1783; 1807–09.


Bentinck British  
/ ˈbɛntɪŋk /

noun

  1. Lord William Cavendish . 1774–1839, British statesman, governor general of Bengal (1828–35)

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Jason Ward lived in Bentinck Street, about a mile and a half away from Gladys's bungalow in Devon Drive.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2018

Bentinck, who voices David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 drama, said he was "astonished and humbled", describing his MBE as "not something I ever expected".

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2018

Tim Bentinck and Terry Molloy - who play David Archer and Mike Tucker in The Archers - will star in Dick Barton Special Agent Live, to take place at the in Leicester on 16 June.

From BBC ● May 28, 2013

Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living.

From Time Magazine Archive

The polling, on December 8th, was declared on December 9th as follows:—Arch, 4,461; Bentinck, 3,821.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

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