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Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), also known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman. From 1828 to 1835, he was Governor-General of India. He is credited with significant social and educational reforms in India, including the abolition of sati and the prohibition of women from ...
Lord Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck 1781–1828: Charles Anthony Ferdinand Bentinck 1792–1864 4th Count Bentinck: William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 1796–1824 Marquess of Titchfield: William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck 1800–1879 5th Duke of Portland, 6th Earl of Portland: Arthur Cavendish-Bentinck 1819–1877: George Augustus ...
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 William Bentinck , governor-general of India, was the second son of the third duke of Portland and his wife, Lady Dorothy Cavendish (1750–1794), only daughter of William Cavendish, fourth duke of Devonshire. Bentinck was born on the 14th of September 1774 at Burlington House in London. He entered the army in 1791 as an ensign in the ...
Bentinck was privy to the cross-party negotiations which preceded the introduction of the revised reform bill, and shared Richmond’s concern ‘that the altered bill would be, in fact, more objectionable than the last, inasmuch as it is more democratic in its tendency’. 37 He voted for its second reading, 17 Dec. 1831.
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 .
Biography. Lord Charles Bentinck, as he was known, remains a shadowy figure, remembered only as one of the principals in the celebrated Abdy divorce case. He was elected a member of Brooks’s in March 1804. Returned for Ashburton on the Clinton interest in 1807, he presumably gave silent support to his father’s ministry.
