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Baron Bolsover of Bolsover in Derbyshire is in Baronies of England Alphabetically, Baronies of England Chronologically, Created Baronesses of England, Extinct Baronies of England.
Summary
23rd April 1880. Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne 1st Baroness Bolsover created.
7th August 1893. William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland succeeded.
26th April 1943. Son William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland succeeded.
21st March 1977. Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck 8th Duke of Portland extinct.
On 23rd April 1880 Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne 1st Baroness Bolsover (age 45) was created 1st Baroness Bolsover of Bolsover in Derbyshire with remainder to the heirs male of the body of her late husband Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish Bentinck.
On 7th August 1893 Augusta Mary Elizabeth Browne 1st Baroness Bolsover (age 58) died. Her step-son William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland (age 35) succeeded 2nd Baron Bolsover of Bolsover in Derbyshire.
On 26th April 1943 William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland (age 85) died. He was buried at St Winifred's Church, Holbeck. His son William (age 50) succeeded 7th Duke Portland, 8th Earl of Portland, 3rd Baron Bolsover of Bolsover in Derbyshire. Ivy Gordon-Lennox Duchess Portland (age 55) by marriage Duchess Portland.
On 21st March 1977 William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 7th Duke Portland (age 84) died. He was buried at St Winifred's Church, Holbeck. His third cousin Ferdinand (age 87) succeeded 8th Duke Portland, 9th Earl of Portland. Baron Bolsover of Bolsover in Derbyshire extinct.
The heir to the Duke's titles was a distant cousin. Rather than allow the entailed estates to pass with the titles, the Duke arranged to break the entails and thus enrich his own daughters. The family seat of Welbeck Abbey [Map] passed to his elder daughter, Lady Anne (age 60), who never married; upon her death, it passed to the son of her deceased younger sister, Lady Margaret, who had died in 1955