468 DEATH OF LOKD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



When the present Duke of Portland succeeded 

 to Welbeck Abbey, he found that the Memorial to 

 Lord George Bentinck, standing in the market- 

 place at Mansfield, Notts, had been damaged by 

 time and damp, and not a little defaced by icono- 

 clastic hands. His Grace immediately gave orders 

 that the monument, in which he naturally took 

 great pride, should be thoroughly restored, and 

 surrounded by a neat iron railing, to protect it 

 from future injury. 



I cannot conclude this work (the writing of 

 which has, as I remarked at its commencement, 

 been to me a veritable labour of love) without 

 adding a few valedictory words in grateful ac- 

 knowledgment of the great and unwearied kind- 

 ness and encouragement extended to me during 

 its composition by their Graces the present Duke 

 and Duchess of Portland. His Grace began by 

 giving instructions to have several pictures at 

 Welbeck Abbey photographed of which I stood 

 in need for the illustration of this volume ; and 

 when, at the last moment, I solicited permission 

 to include the Duchess's portrait in this attempted 

 tribute to the memory of one of the most illus- 

 trious members of the Bentinck family, her Grace 

 was pleased to send me a photograph of herself, 

 executed by Miss Alice Hughes, of Gower Street, 

 W.C., which has been faithfully reproduced in the 

 accompanying engraving. Not satisfied, however, 



