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BACKGROUND AND EDUCATION The son of the eccentric Henry Bentinck (wartime Coldstream Guards officer, BBC producer, Jackaroo , author, advertising producer, and self-sufficient organic smallholder), Bentinck was born on a sheep station in Tasmania . He was brought home to England when he was two and lived in the Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted . He later attended a local Prep School before going on to Harrow School and the University Of East Anglia , where he was awarded a BA degree in the History of Art. By his own admission, he spent most of his time at UEA in its drama society. He then trained for an acting career at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. CAREER Bentinck has been an actor since 1982 and is best known for the role of David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series '' The Archers ''. He is a leading voice-over artist and has also starred in television series and has theatre and film credits. He played a pirate in The Pirates Of Penzance on film and stage. For a £200 ''buyout'', he recorded the " Mind The Gap " warnings on the Piccadilly Line of the London Underground . He is also an Inventor , with several Patents to his name, a computer programmer, web site designer, guitarist, banjoist, songwriter, author and house renovator. TITLES In 1990 , a distant Bentinck cousin who was Duke Of Portland died, and Tim Bentinck's Father succeeded to the Earldom Of Portland , using his maiden speech in the House Of Lords to address environmental issues. In 1997 , Tim Bentinck succeeded his father. Although he took his seat in the unreformed House Of Lords , he did not speak there before losing the right to do so as a result of the House Of Lords Act 1999 , and apart from a lecture tour of the United States on English Eccentrics, he has not used this title. He is also recorded at the Imperial College of Princes and Counts of the Holy Roman Empire (founded 1489) as a Sovereign Princely Count of The Holy Roman Empire, by Imperial Letters Patent of 29 December 1732. http://imperialcollegeofprincesandcounts.com/_wsn/page3.html FAMILY Bentinck married Judith Emerson in 1979, and they have two sons, William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock (heir to the peerages) and The Honourable Jasper Bentinck. EXTERNAL LINKS
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