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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 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.
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.
Probably William also had a good relation with Duke George of Oldenburg who was referred to as a prince in Russia. Captain John Bentinck (1737–1775) and his son, William Bentinck (1764–1813), by Mason Chamberlin. He married Frances Augusta Pierrepont [1] in 1802 and together they had eight children, but only four survived to adult age. [2]
Ministerial responsibility, the principal object of parliamentary struggles conducted by the Parti Canadien in Lower Canada and the Reformers in Upper Canada, becomes a reality in 1848, when Governor Lord Elgin agreed to let the leaders of the majority parties in Canada-East and the Canada-West, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin ...
In the Days of the Canada Company: The Story of the Settlement of the Huron Tract and a view of the Social Life of the Period, 1825—1850. Nabu Public Domain Reprints. David Mills. Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784–1850. 1988. ISBN 0-7735-0660-8. Graeme Patterson. An Enduring Canadian Myth: Responsible Government and the Family Compact ...
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 ...
c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. William Lyon Mackenzie was in London appealing his expulsion from the Upper Canadian Legislative Assembly to the Colonial Office at the time, and was present in the galleries of the British Parliament for the debate on the Reform Act 1832. Seeing the ...
The Constitutional debate of Canada is an ongoing debate covering various political issues regarding the fundamental law of the country. The debate can be traced back to the Royal Proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763, following the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1763) wherein France ceded most of New France to Great Britain in favour of keeping Guadeloupe.