BENTINCK, WILLIAM GEORGE

commonly called Lord George Bentinck, younger s. of 4th Duke of Portland; prominent Whig politician; promoted enfranchisement of Irish and Jews, but opposed Free Trade, and was formidable opponent of Peel; cut great figure in sporting world. aida tyrant of Bologna, deposed by rench, peek Ital. cardinal, diplomatist, and author. Eng. scholar; 6. Oulton (Yorks); ed. Wake field and Cambridge; master o f Spalding Grammar School (1682), but soon resigned to become tutor to the son of Dr. Stilling fleet, Dean of St. Paul’s. He remained with this family for six years, and upon the dean being app. bp. of Worcester, accompanied his pupil to Oxford, where he became noted for his learning, and delivered the Boyle lectures on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; having taken his degree at both univ’s, he took holy orders, with a view to ecclesiastical preferment’ His letter to Dr. Mill, editor of the Gk. chronicler John Malalas, in 1691, and his famous Di ertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, established his reputation as the greatest scholar of his age. In 1700 he was app. Master of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; in 1717 Regius Prof. of Divinity. Eng. publisher; originally a printer; began busine as publisher in conjunction with Henry Colburn, 1829; B’s Miscellany, which first appeared 1837, was edit. for three years by Charles Dickens.