Lord George Bentinck (24 December 1715 – 1 March 1759) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament (MP).
[1] He received the appointment of ensign on 3 November 1735, and having been promoted on 12 April 1743 to the command of a company in the 1st Foot Guards, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he served at the battle of Dettingen in June that year.
Lord George lived openly out of wedlock with a woman named Mary Davies of Hanwell for several years.
They eventually married at the infamous Keith's Chapel in Westminster on 29 June 1753, at which time she became styled Lady George Bentinck.
It is reported that Lord George's grief on this account contributed as much, if not more, to his death than the gout, and that he has left £40,000 (the whole of his fortune) to the present Lady George Bentinck.Just six weeks after his death, his widow remarried to a Joseph Griffiths, Esq., on 17 April 1759,[1] at St Clement Danes, Westminster.