Editing Lady Ottoline Morrell (section)

== Early life ==
Born Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, she was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck (son of [[Lord Charles Bentinck|Lord]] and [[Lady Charles Bentinck]]) and his second wife, the former Augusta Browne, later created [[Baron Bolsover|Baroness Bolsover]]. Lady Ottoline's great-great-uncle (through her paternal grandmother, Lady Charles Bentinck) was [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|the 1st Duke of Wellington]].  Through her father, Arthur, she was a first cousin once removed of [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]], and thus a first cousin twice removed of [[Queen Elizabeth II]], both of whom descended from Arthur's brother [[Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (priest)|Charles Cavendish-Bentinck]].<ref>{{alox2|title=Bentinck, Rev. Charles William Cavendish}}</ref><ref name=BP/>

Ottoline was granted the rank of a daughter of a duke with the courtesy title of "Lady" soon after her half-brother [[William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland|William]] succeeded to the [[Duke of Portland|Dukedom of Portland]] in 1879,<ref name=BP>''[[Burke's Peerage]]'' (102nd Ed., 1959), p. 1820</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue= 24810 |date=10 February 1880 |page= 622 }}</ref> at which time the family moved into [[Welbeck Abbey]] in [[Nottinghamshire]]. The dukedom was a title which belonged to the head of the Cavendish-Bentinck family and which passed to Lady Ottoline's branch upon the death of their cousin, the [[William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland|5th Duke of Portland]], in December 1879.<ref name=BP/>

In 1899, Ottoline began studying political economy and Roman history as an out-student at [[Somerville College, Oxford]].<ref>[https://spartacus-educational.com/Jmorrell.htm Ottoline Morrell] – [[Spartacus Educational]]</ref>