Record

Document Reference	Pw M 357
Title	Letter from Prudence Penelope Cavendish Bentinck, Aswarby House, Folkingham to Rawdon Brown; 7 Dec. 1881
Date	7 December 1881
Extent	3 ff (plus envelope)
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Is staying with her friends Sir Thomas and Lady Whichcote until she goes to stay with George at Whitehaven. Reports that Sir Thomas has had a riding accident and sustained concussion of the brain. Confirms that her brother [John Leslie] is recovering from his accident [see Pw M 356]. Reports further on her nephew Lord Waterford's troubles in Ireland with the Land League and tenant farmers, and complains that he has had to move his horses and hounds to Lincolnshire. Also a riding accident he suffered which has left him in bed unable to walk. Goes on to discuss family news concerning her daughter Jessica, grandson Mark and son Fred. Pw M 357/3 is an envelope.
Term	accidents, hunting
	Irish affairs, land ownership
	politics, Irish

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA650	Brown; Rawdon Lubbock (1803-1883); historian; editor of Calendars of Venetian State Papers	1803-1883
NA1108	Bentinck; Prudence Penelope Cavendish- (-1896); Mrs; née Leslie; daughter of Charles Powell Leslie; married George A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck in 1851	-1896
NA79695	Whichcote; Thomas (1813-1892); 7th Baronet Whichcote; of Aswarby Park, Lincolnshire; succ. 1829	1813-1892
NA79851	Whichcote; Isabella Elizabeth (-1892); Lady; née Montgomery; daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1st Bt. and Sarah Mercer Grove; married Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th Bt. 1856	-1892
NA79671	Leslie; John (1822-1916); 1st Baronet Leslie of of Glaslough; brother of Prudence Penelope Cavendish Bentinck; MP for Monaghan 1871-1880	1822-1916
NA79848	Beresford; John Henry de la Poer (1844-1895); 5th Marquess of Waterford	1844-1895
NA71273	Sykes; C.A. Jessica (1852-1912); Lady Sykes; dau. of G.A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck; estranged wife of Sir Tatton Sykes 5th Bart, married 1874; spendthrift	1852-1912
NA79850	Sykes; Tatton Benvenuto Mark (1879-1919); 6th Baronet; English traveller, Conservative Party politician and diplomatic adviser	1879-1919
NA70763	Bentinck; W.G. Frederick Cavendish- (1856-1948); Mr; father of 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland; son of George A.F. Cavendish Bentinck and Prudentia Penelope Leslie	1856-1948