Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland

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Timothy Bentinck

Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count von Aldenburg-Bentinck MBE (born June 1, 1953 in Tasmania ) is a British nobleman , actor , voice actor and composer.

Origin and family environment

Timothy Bentinck comes from a very noble Dutch-German family from Geldern , who had belonged to the knighthood of the Duchy of Geldern since 1377. A branch of the family came with Johann Wilhelm Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1648–1709), the closest friend of the Dutch governor and from 1689 British King Wilhelm III. to England, where in the same year it was awarded the titles of Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock and Baron Cirencester and later also acquired the title of Duke of Portland . The second son of the earl and brother of the first duke acquired the imperial direct dominions of Knyphausen and Varel through marriage with the heir daughter of the last Count of Aldenburg and was raised to the rank of imperial count on December 29, 1732 , making him the high nobility of the Holy Roman Empire got. One of the descendants of the line of German noblemen, Count Heinrich von Bentinck and Aldenburg (1846–1903), returned to Great Britain in the 19th century and joined the British Army. After the Dukes of Portland died out, this branch of the family inherited the title of Earl and the other titles of nobility conferred on the family in 1689, Viscount Woodstock, Baron Cirencester, after the title of ducal had expired due to the extinction of the first Duke's descendants.

Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, the great-grandson of Count Heinrich, was born on June 1, 1953, the son of Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland (1919-1997) and Pauline Mellows (1921-1967). He has been married to Judith Ann Emerson (* 1952) since September 8, 1979, with whom he has two sons :.

  • William Jack Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock (* 1984)
  • Hon. Jasper James Mellows Bentinck (* 1988)

House of Lords

From 1990 to 1997 he held the courtesy title Viscount Woodstock . With the death of his father in 1997, he inherited his title of nobility including the associated seat in the House of Lords . However, with the reform of the upper house in 1999, he lost his seat in parliament again.

Professional career

Timothy Bentinck was raised in Harrow . He then attended the University of East Anglia and then the Bristol Old Vic Theater School in 1978 to become an actor. He immediately received many theater engagements, e.g. B. at the Theater Royal Drury Lane , acted in numerous films and was a voice actor and radio reader. In the radio play series The Archers , he spoke the David Archer in more than 75 episodes. He performed all appearances under the stage name Tim Bentinck . In addition, he was the composer of the theme song for Easy Money and voice actor on radio and TV, with which he demonstrated his versatility and breadth (in the theater e.g. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and Nora or Ein Puppenheim ), in films such as Enigma to crime novels on television, z. B. Silent Witness , Murder in Suburbia or serious pieces like Churchill - The Gathering Storm showed.

Filmography (selection)

Ludography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Volume Fü 1, page 191, CA Starke-Verlag, Glücksburg, 1951
  2. ^ Genealogy. Manual, Volume Adelslexikon 1, page 314, 1972.
  3. ^ Genealogy. Manual, Volume Fü 1, page 192
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Peerage, Article Portland
  5. ^ Genealogy. Handbook Volume Fü VII, page 216
  6. ^ Who is Who, 2015, p. 1855
predecessor Office successor
Henry Bentinck Earl of Portland
1997 – present 		current title holder
personal data
SURNAME Bentinck, Timothy, 12th Earl of Portland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentinck, Timothy Charles Robert Noel, 12th Earl of Portland (full name); Bentinck, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman, actor, voice actor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tasmania