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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 soldier and statesman who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first Governor-General of India from 1834 to 1835.
17 apr 2024 · 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.
William Bentinck (known as Willem Bentinck in Dutch) was the first son of the second marriage of the 1st Earl of Portland. His half-brother Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland, inherited his father's English possessions. William inherited the Dutch lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht.
William, Lord Bentinck, (born Sept. 14, 1774, Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, Eng.—died June 17, 1839, Paris, France), British colonial administrator. Born to wealth and rank, he was appointed governor of Madras in 1803.
From July 1794 to March 1795 he commanded the 'Tremendous'. Between 1798 and 1802 Bentinck served as Governor of St Vincent and the Grenadines. In 1800, his grandmother Charlotte Sophie, Countess Bentinck, died, and bequeathed him an estate at Doorwerth in The Netherlands.
BENTINCK, lord William Giuseppe GALLAVRESI Nato il 14 settembre 1774, figlio cadetto del terzo duca di Portland, pervenne rapidamente al grado di maggior generale batteridosi in tutte le guerre condotte dall'Inghilterra contro la Francia rivoluzionaria.
William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, KG, PC (Dutch: Hans Willem Bentinck; 20 July 1649 – 23 November 1709) was a Dutch-born English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of England.
