1921 – Potten End, Hertfordshire, 10 January 1967), daughter of Frank Wilford Mellowes (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, April / June 1875 – London, 10 October 1940) and wife Doris (née Watts). They had three children: Lady Sorrel Deidre Bentinck (born 22 February 1942), married Sir John Philip Lister Lister-Kaye, 8th Baronet, and has issue. Lady Anna Cecilia Bentinck (born 18 May 1947). Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland (born 1 June 1953), an actor known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers. He married secondly, Jenifer Hopkins, in 1974. She died in 2016. Peerages With the death of his cousin in 1968 he became Count Bentinck of the Holy Roman Empire, a foreign title which may be used in the United Kingdom due to a royal licence of 1886. In 1990, on the death of his distant cousin the 9th Duke of Portland, he succeeded to the Earldom of Portland through his descent from the first Earl. One of the last generation of hereditary peers to take a seat in the House of Lords by direct inheritance, his maiden speech in the Lords in January 1993 was on the 9th report of the European Communities Committee on the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Legislation, when he spoke for restrained urban and population growth on ecological grounds. References External links Tim Bentinck's Memorial site "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" "Nederlands Adelsboek" http://familytrees.genopro.com/iaintait/Tree_Compilation/genomaps/genomap125.svg |- of the Holy Roman Empire 1919 births 1997 deaths H Counts of the Holy Roman Empire Teutonic Knights People educated at Harrow School BBC people British conscientious objectors Coldstream Guards officers British Army personnel of World War II Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Earls of Portland