Education
Charles Henry Bentinck was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Charles Henry Bentinck was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1904 and served in Berlin 1905-1906 and Street St. Petersburg 1906-1909 before being appointed to The Hague 1908-1914 where he acted as Chargé d"affaires on several occasions. During World War I he was stationed in Tokyo. In 1919 he returned to the Foreign Office and in 1920 was posted with the rank of counsellor to Athens where he again acted as chargé d"affaires for a considerable period.
He was also British delegate to the international financial commission which had been established in Athens following the Greco-Turkish War (1897) to oversee the public finances of Greece.
After a few months as Consul-General at Munich 1924-1925 Bentinck was Minister and Consul-General in Ethiopia 1925-1929. Minister to Peru and Ecuador (at that time a combined mission) 1929-1933.
Minister to Bulgaria 1934-1936. Minister to Czechoslovakia 1936-1937.
And Ambassador to Chile 1937-1940.
After retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 1941 Bentinck studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained in the same year. He was vicar of West Farleigh, Kent, 1941-1946. In 1946 he moved to Brussels and was for two years officiating chaplain to Her Majesty Forces in Belgium.