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The Bengal Sati Regulation, [nb 1] or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was a legal act promulgated in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.
Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first governor-general of India from 1834 to 1835.
William Bentinck, in an 1829 report, without specifying the year or period, stated that "of the 463 satis occurring in the whole of the Presidency of Fort William, [i] 420 took place in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, or what is termed the Lower Provinces, and of these latter 287 in the Calcutta Division alone". For the Upper Provinces, Bentinck ...
William Bentinck was the first to be designated as the Governor-general of India in 1833. ... Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829; Suppression of Thuggee (1829–1835)
In February 1829 dispute between Nepal and Sikkim arose regarding their borders (especially Ontoo Dara) and the then British Governor-General of India, Lord William Bentinck, sent two officers, Captain George Alymer Lloyd and J. W. Grant, to help resolve the situation.
Captain John Cragie sailed Lord William Bentinck from the Downs on 8 June 1828, bound for China and Halifax. She arrived at Whampoa on 18 November. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 21 January 1829, reached St Helena on 30 March, and arrived at Halifax on 9 May. [2] Lord William Bentinck discharged her cargo of tea but then ran ashore.
In 1829, he married his distant cousin Renira Antoinette, the daughter of Admiral James Hawkins Whitshed. [9] By her mother Sophia Henrietta, the daughter of John Albert Bentinck, she was just as her husband a descendant of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland. [3] Their marriage was childless. [1]
William Bentinck (Royal Navy officer) (1764–1813), Royal Navy officer; Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), British soldier and statesman; William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649–1709), Knight of the Garter; William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland (1709–1762), Knight of the Garter; William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (1768–1854 ...