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Jun 6, 2011 · Ban on Sati Practice by William Bentinck. Due to fierce campaign and lobbying of Raja Rammohan Roy and others,Sati practice was formally banned in all the lands under Bengal Presidency by Lord William Bentinck on 4 December 1829. By this regulation, the people who abetted sati were declared guilty of “culpable homicide.”.
Vice-Admiral William Bentinck FRS (17 June 1764 – 21 February 1813) was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Saint Vincent from 1798 to 1802. During his long career in the navy, he eventually rose to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue .
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William Bentinck (known as Willem Bentinck in Dutch) was the first son of the second marriage of the 1st Earl of Portland. His half-brother Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland, inherited his father's English possessions. William inherited the Dutch lordships of Rhoon and Pendrecht. Brought up initially in England, in his teens Bentinck and his ...
Lord William Bentinck was born in Buckinghamshire, the second son of Prime Minister William Bentinck and Lady Dorothy. Upon the third duke's marriage to Lady Dorothy, he changed the family name to Cavendish-Bentinck. He was a liberal reformist who took active part in the reform movement of England. In 1808, he served in the ‘Battle of Corunna ...
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Feb 11, 2022 · William Bentinck came in India as Governor-General of Bengal in July, 1828 and continued upto March, 1835. He introduced radical changes in the sphere of finance, justice and education. He fully re-organised the entire judicial system. Bentinck adopted the policy of Indianisation of the judiciary. Although he initiated many new policies in the ...
