Will Bentinck
Will Bentinck | |
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| Viscount Woodstock | |
| File:CoA Bentinck Famly.svg | |
| Born | William Jack Henry Bentinck 19 May 1984 Islington, London, UK[1] |
| Noble family | Bentinck |
| Spouse |
Rebecca Newton (m. 2021) |
| Father | The 12th Earl of Portland |
| Occupation | Fintech entrepreneur |
William Jack Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, Graf Bentinck[2] (born 19 May 1984), known as Will Bentinck, is a British aristocrat, social entrepreneur and speaker.
Background and education
[edit | edit source]The elder son of the actor Tim Bentinck, and couture milliner Judith ("Judy") Ann Emerson, he was accorded the courtesy style of Viscount Woodstock[3] upon his father inheriting the earldom of Portland.[4]
Bentinck attended Harrow School before going up to read Philosophy at Heythrop College, London, graduating BA with first-class honours in 2010.
Career
[edit | edit source]After graduating from London University, Bentinck co-founded The Ragged University,[5] a free service offering peer-to-peer educational events inspired by the 19th-century English ragged schools.[6] Later in 2010, Bentinck co-founded Levantine Links,[5] a nonprofit organisation recruiting high-calibre UK graduates to provide English language programmes serving children and adults in Al-Hasakah, Syria, in collaboration with the Syriac Orthodox Church.[7]
In March 2012, Bentinck was named a Vodafone Foundation 'World of Difference' winner,[8] receiving funding for an internship with Ashoka, a fellowship of some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.[9]
In 2012, Bentinck joined Enternships,[10] founded by award-winning young entrepreneur Rajeeb Dey. He spoke at TEDxSquareMile,[11] and a course leader for the Accelerator Academy,[12] since 2014 Bentinck is a Tech London Advocate as Head of Careers at Makers Academy[13] and Head of B2C Sales.[14]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Married on 1 July 2021 at Crear, Argyllshire,[15] to Rebecca, daughter of Christopher Newton, of Saintfield, Co. Down, and Deborah McCloy, of Mojacar, Spain.[16]
See also
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- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3181.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Charles Kidd and David Williamson, Debrett's, 1990, p. 988.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Bentinck's travel blog, "Questing for a New Mojo" at Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- 'Generation Y Gets Help to Produce Brilliant Entrepreneurs' Spears' WMS