"The King...said...[he] thought the Duke of Portland weak and of no use, and that he was governed by the Bishop of Meath, who was an unsound man.—This is curious."
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Mr. Cooke to Lord Castlereagh on Castlereagh's plan of subsidising the Catholic Church in Ireland, and making it a state church as well as the Protestant Church of Ireland, which the Duke of Portland supported (20 March 1801), quoted in Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry, Vol. IV, ed. Charles Vane, Marquess of Londonderry (1849), p. 81
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland KG PC FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809). The gap of 26 years between his two terms as Prime Minister is the longest of any British Prime Minister.
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