Resultado da Busca
26 de ago. de 2020 · The first important contribution of William Bentinck was social reforms in India. The main reforms were like, he put the ban on thugs. Female infanticide, which was a general practice in regions of Punjab and Rajputana. But, the most important step was the abolition of Sati in 1829. The general reason behind these reforms was the petition of ...
Biography. Portland was the elder son of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, and his wife, Winifred Anna (née Dallas-Yorke). He was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in 1922, a seat he held until he succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1943, and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury under Stanley Baldwin from 1927 to 1929 and under ...
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (28 May 1863 – 6 October 1931), known as Henry Cavendish-Bentinck until 1880, was a British Conservative politician. Biography [ edit ] Cavendish-Bentinck was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck from his second marriage to Augusta Mary Elizabeth, 1st Baroness Bolsover.
The fourth surviving son of the 4th Duke of Portland, Lord Henry was educated at Oxford but devoted the early part of his life to the pursuit of fox hunting - riding out as much as six days a week. Such was his obsession that he produced a treatise outlining his favoured method of hunting - 'Foxhounds and their Handling in the Field'. He was ...
19 de set. de 2022 · William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3 rd Duke of Portland carried the family line forward, and became its most famous politician. He stayed in the family tradition a supporter of the Whigs in government, and was named Lord Lieutenant (or viceroy) of Ireland, briefly, during the ministry of Lord Rockingham in 1782.
The Right Honorable General Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, G.C.B. Late Governor General of India | Museum number 2010,7081.4709 |
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (father) Lady Dorothy Cavendish (mother) Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck (20 May 1780 – 28 April 1826), [1] known as Lord Charles Bentinck, was a British soldier and politician and a great-great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II .
