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Há 2 dias · Statue of Lord William Bentinck in Calcutta Victoria Memorial. As Governor-General, Bentinck made English the medium of instruction in schools and phased out Persian. Raja Ram Mohun Roy, a native reformer and educationist. British rule saw the establishment of liberal arts colleges in many districts of Bengal.
Há 1 dia · Bentinck personally absolved him from his promise and on July 4 he returned to his capital, as always amid cheering crowds. Lord William Bentinck was not among them. His conduct in recent months had not gone unnoticed by the British government.
Há 2 dias · Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor General of India in 1834 under the Government of India Act 1833. The Company India ruled until 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Government of India Act 1858 , the India Office of the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new ...
Há 3 dias · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his ...
Há 4 dias · When Bentinck suggested to his doctor that the illness might be due to the unwonted heat, the patient, trembling with fever, cried out, “Ce n’est pas la chaleur, c’est ma mère, ma mère!” It turned out not to have been deliberate poisoning after all, but the Prince never altogether recovered; his illness left him prematurely aged—bent, gray-faced and shuffling.
Há 2 dias · Among many other things made there were a pumping engine for the Lambeth Waterworks (1831) and the “Lord William Bentinck,” said to have been the first iron vessel built on the Thames (launched in 1832). Two wharves and houses, known as Nos. 7 and 9 Belvedere Road, were built on the northern portion of the land.
Há 4 dias · In May 1698, however, William III granted the freehold of the close, together with that of the adjoining and more valuable Soho Fields, to one of his favourites, William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland.
