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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...
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  • William Bentinck may refer to: William Bentinck (Royal Navy officer) (1764–1813), Royal Navy officer Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), British soldier...
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    William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC, FRS (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician...
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    William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, PC (24 June 1768 – 27 March 1854), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1809, was a British...
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  • Lord William Charles Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck (20 May 1780 – 28 April 1826), known as Lord Charles Bentinck, was a British soldier and politician and...
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    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...
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    William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of...
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  • Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (8 November 1817 – 17 August 1865) was a clergyman of the Church of England who held livings in Bedfordshire...
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    important British branch was founded by Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, who accompanied William Henry, Prince of Orange to England during the Glorious...
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    of Scott in the manner of Cavendish-Bentinck. His eldest son and heir apparent, William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield, represented...
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    Hastings, the first official governor-general of British India was Lord William Bentinck, and the first governor-general of the Dominion of India was Lord Mountbatten...
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  • Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck of Waldeck Limpurg, MBE (born 1 June 1953), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an English...
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    William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland KG (1 March 1709 – 1 May 1762), styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1716 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1716...
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    grandparents were William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish,...
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  • amount payable by the cultivators was more than what they could afford. William Bentinck, the Governor-General of Bengal and afterwards Governor-General of...
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  • William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck may refer to: William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman...
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    Dorothy Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (née Lady Dorothy Cavendish; 27 August 1750 – 3 June 1794) was Duchess of Portland and the wife of William Cavendish-Bentinck...
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  • William Bentinck-Smith (1914–1993) was a Harvard University administrator and for many years editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, known for his "encyclopedic"...
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  • William Jack Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, Graf Bentinck (born 19 May 1984), commonly known as Will Bentinck, is an English London-based social entrepreneur...
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    peerage of Great Britain as Earl of Portland. Bentinck was the second, but eldest surviving, son of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, and his wife Anne...
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    India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati or suttee—or the immolation of a...
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  • re-designated the office with the title of Governor-General of India. Lord William Bentinck was the first to be designated as the Governor-general of India in...
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    Lord William George Frederick Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (27 February 1802 – 21 September 1848), better known as Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative...
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    Lord William Bentinck, governor-general of India in the 1830s, supposedly planned to demolish the Taj Mahal and auction off the marble. Bentinck's biographer...
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  • India Company, when the first formal award was instituted by Lord William Bentinck in 1834 as the Order of Merit, later renamed the Indian Order of Merit...
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  • William Cavendish-Bentinck may refer to: Charles William Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck (1817–1865), Church of England clergyman Lord William Charles Augustus...
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    William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, KG, GCVO, GCStJ, TD, PC, DL (28 December 1857 – 26 April 1943), known as William...
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    William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, KG (16 March 1893 – 21 March 1977), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1943, was a British...
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    Cavendish-Bentinck is a surname associated with the Dukes of Portland and their descendants. Bentinck is a Dutch surname brought to England by William Bentinck...
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  • Bentinck was born in the parish of St George Hanover Square, Westminster. His father, Count Robert Charles Bentinck, a descendant of William Bentinck...
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