Gentleman detective in the Royal Military Police. Morse's snobbery is intellectual rather than a question of breeding or social advantage. Detective Inspector Lynley is another truly aristocratic member of the Police, being an Earl. Much of the plot of the novels by Elizabeth George revolve around his working relationship with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, who is of lower-class origins. Both show greater loyalty to each other than to official regulations and accepted attitudes to their relative stations, and both are capable of self-sacrificing actions of "noblesse oblige". Carmen Isabella Sandiego, the "World's Greatest Thief", was originally ACME Crimenet's most intelligent and distinguished
Earl of Portland 1886 the 5th Count was granted a Royal Licence which allowed him the use of this renounced title in England. The title is inherited in male primogeniture line by the descendants of William Bentinck. The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son William Jack Henry Bentinck (born 1984), whose courtesy title is Viscount Woodstock. <section begin=Family Tree/> <section end=Family Tree/> Earl of Portland Earl of Portland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, first in 1633 and again in 1689. The title Duke of Portland was created in 1716 but became extinct in