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church, Derbyshire 4 April, personalty sworn under £900,000 July 1854. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95; _W. Day’s Reminiscenses_ (1886) 132–8; _Waagen’s Galleries of Art_ (1857) 511–16; _G.M. xli_ 523–4 (1854). PORTLAND, _William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck_, 5 Duke of (2 son of 4 duke of Portland). _b._ London 17 Sept. 1800; styled lord John Bentinck 1809–24; ensign and lieut. grenadier guards 16 July 1818; cornet 10 hussars 26 Nov. 1818; capt. 7 hussars 24 Oct. 1821; capt. 2 life guards 25 Jany. 1823; styled marquess of Titchfield 1824–54; M.P. King’s Lynn 1824–6; lieut. and capt. grenadier guards 15 June 1830; succeeded his father as 5 duke of Portland 27 March 1854; constructed a mile and a half of underground tunnels at Welbeck to connect the various parts; erected a peach house 1,000 feet long; made a tan gallop a quarter of a mile long, covered with glass; erected a riding school 385 feet long; kept many mares and race horses; employed 1,500 workmen during many years at Welbeck and expended upwards of 4 millions. _d._ Harcourt house, 19 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. _bur._ Kensal green 12 Dec., personalty sworn under £1,500,000 March 1880. _Baily’s Mag. June 1889 pp._ 387–95; _London Figaro 15 Sept 1875 pp._ 5–6 _portrait_, _reprinted 13 Dec. 1879 pp._ 10–11 _portrait_. PORTLOCK, JOSEPH ELLISON (only son of Nathaniel Portlock, captain in the navy, _d._ 12 Sept. 1816). _b._ Gosport, Hampshire 30 Sept. 1794; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; commander of R.E. of the Cork district 1849–51, and of the south-eastern district 1856–7; inspector of studies at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1851–6; colonel 1 April 1855, retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 25 Nov. 1857; employed in the trigonometrical branch of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1825–43, where he completed the great triangulation; a founder of the Geological society of Dublin 1831, president 1838, 1839, 1851, and 1852; a founder of the Zoological society 1826, president; president of geological section of British association at Belfast 1852; member of council of military education May 1857 to 1862; hon. LL.D. Dublin 1857; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 8 June 1837; author of Report on the geology of Londonderry, Tyrone, and Fermanagh, Dublin 1843; A rudimentary treatise on geology 1849, 2 ed. 1852; Memoir of the life of major general T. Colby 1869. _d._ Blackrock, near Dublin 14 Feb. 1864. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiv_ 13–17 (1865); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi_ 40–5 (1865). PORTMAN, EDWARD BERKELEY PORTMAN, 1 Viscount (son of Edward Berkeley Portman _d._ 19 Jany. 1823). _b._ Bryanston, Dorset 9 July 1799; educ. Eton 1814 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826; M.P. Dorset 1823–32; M.P. Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to March 1833; major 1 Somerset regt. of militia 13 March 1839; cr. baron Portman of Orchard Portman, Dorset 27 Jany. 1837, and viscount Portman of Bryanston, Dorset 28 March 1873; lord lieutenant of Somerset 22 May 1839 to June 1864; a comr. and councillor of duchy of Cornwall 19 Aug. 1840; a councillor of duchy of Lancaster 13 Feb. 1847; a councillor of duchy of Cornwall 27 Jany. 1863; lord warden of the stannaries and high steward of the duchy of Cornwall 20 Jany. 1865 to death; a breeder of Devon cattle and Alderney cows; president of royal agricultural society 1846, 1856, and 1862; author of Family Prayers 1859, 4 ed. 1868. _d._ Bryanston 19 Nov. 1888, will proved for £244,092. _Journal of royal agricultural soc._ (1889) _p. vi_; _I.L.N. 12 July 1862 p._ 57 _portrait_, _11 April 1863 p._ 400 _portrait_. NOTE.--The following works refer to lord Portman, Statement by marquis of Hastings of the case of lady Flora Hastings and correspondence with lord Portman 1839; A warning letter to the baroness Lehzen with observations on letter of lord Portman 1839; Lady Flora Hastings by J. F. Murray, with observations on the statements of ladies Portman and Tavistock 1839. PORTMAN, WYNDHAM BERKELEY (eld. son of capt. Wyndham B. Portman, R.N. 1804–83). _b._ 15 May 1831; attended all race meetings and had great knowledge of horse breeding; founder and proprietor of Horse and hound 30 Wellington st. Strand, London March 1884 to death. _d._ Alipose house, Worcester road, Sutton, Surrey 18 Sept. 1890. _bur._ Brookwood cemetery 20 Sept. _Horse and hound 20 Sept. 1890 p._ 573, _27 Sept. p._ 585; _Baily’s Mag. Oct. 1890 p._ 281. PORTON, WILLIAM. _b._ on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug. 1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton more than 60 years. _d._ Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years and 2 months. PORTSMOUTH, JOHN CHARLES WALLOP 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of Portsmouth 1742–97). _b._ Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec. 1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as 3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley; all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb.