Quartered arms of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, KG
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of PortlandKG (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716 to 1726, was a British peer and politician.
The Duke did not seek any public office, but focused on his family life at the family seat, Bulstrode Park.[1]
Portland is identified in The Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1909) as one of the perpetrators of The Great Bottle Hoax of 1749, in which a large crowd was lured to a London theatre with the expectation of seeing a man jump into a "quart bottle".[citation needed]