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Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of British-occupied India. Everyone else before him was the Governor of Bengal (Fort William). On his return to England, Bentinck served in the House of Commons for some years before being appointed Governor-General of Bengal in 1828.
Reverend Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (8 November 1817 – 17 August 1865). He was a great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II through his daughter, who married the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne .
Lord Edward Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (3 March 1744 – 8 October 1819), married Elizabeth Cumberland (d. 1837) Portland died in May 1762, aged 53, was buried at Westminster Abbey . He was succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son William, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain .
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).
The Colebrooke–Cameron Commission was appointed in 1833 as a Royal Commission of Eastern Inquiry by the British Colonial Office to assess the administration of the island of Ceylon and to make recommendations for administrative, financial, economic, and judicial reform. According to Sir Charles Jeffries' book, Ceylon - The Path to ...
The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [12] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [13] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. [14]
Charles Bentinck may refer to: Charles Cavendish-Bentinck (1817–1865), Church of England clergyman; Charles Ferdinand Bentinck (1764–1811), Dutch-born British colonial governor; Lord Charles Bentinck (1780–1826), British aristocrat, father of Charles Cavendish-Bentinck; Charles Henry Bentinck (1879–1955), British diplomat and Anglican ...
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 ...