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Bentinck was born in Buckinghamshire, the second son of Prime Minister William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, and Lady Dorothy (née Cavendish), only daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. On the marriage the family name became Cavendish-Bentinck. [11] He was educated at Westminster School, a boys' public school in Westminster ...
The English Education Act 1835 was a legislative Act of the Council of India, gave effect to a decision in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, to reallocate funds it was required to spend on education and literature in India.
William Jones, engraving after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Cornwallis received critical assistance from others in his effort to introduce legal reforms. William Jones, an expert on languages, translated existing Hindu and Muslim penal codes into English so that they could be evaluated and applied by English-speaking judges. [26]
William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (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).
He was born in London, the second son of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, and his wife Henrietta, daughter of General John Scott. [2] He was baptised at St George's Church, Hanover Square, on 30 September. One of nine children, he was known by his second Christian name, John, as all the male members of the family were named William.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a Brahmin and a Sanskrit scholar was the most prominent campaigner of widow remarriage.He petitioned the Legislative council, [11] but there was a counter petition against the proposal with nearly four times more signatures by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.
William Bentinck 1704–1774 1st Count Bentinck: William Bentinck 1709–1762 2nd Duke of Portland, 3rd Earl of Portland: Christian Frederick Anthony Bentinck 1734–1768: William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1738–1809 3rd Duke of Portland, 4th Earl of Portland: William Gustavus Frederic Bentinck 1762–1835 2nd Count Bentinck: John Charles ...