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Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first governor-general of India from 1834 to 1835.
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809).
O tenente-general Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (Buckinghamshire, Inglaterra, 14 de setembro de 1774 - Paris, França, 17 de junho de 1839), conhecido como Lord William Bentinck, foi um soldado e estadista britânico.
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In 1803 he married Lady Mary Acheson (d 1843), daughter of the 1st Earl of Gosford. They had no children.
Details of collections held elsewhere are available through the National Register of Archives.Ahmad, Manazir, Lord William Bentinck(Allahabad, 1978)Azariah, Isaiah, Lord Bentinck and Indian education, crime, and status of women(Washington, 1978)Azariah, Isaiah, Lord Bentinck and Indian social reforms (1997)Boulger, D.C.,Lord William Bentinck(Oxford, 1892)Barrett, C.E., Lord William Bentinck in India, 1828-1835 (Oxford University DPhil. Thesis, 1954)Pandey, Kailash Narain, Lord William Bentinck and the Indian states, 1828-1835(University of London PhD Thesis, 1957)Read more about former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, William Cavendish-Bentinck, a powerful figure of late 18th Century politics.
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of Portland was a British prime minister from April 2 to Dec. 19, 1783, and from March 31, 1807, to Oct. 4, 1809; on both occasions he was merely the nominal head of a government controlled by stronger political leaders.
Lord William Bentinck was a British governor-general of Bengal (1828–33) and of India (1833–35). An aristocrat who sympathized with many of the liberal ideas of his day, he made important administrative reforms in Indian government and society.
