Lord William Henry Cavendish- Bentinck

(1774-1839)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish, Lord, 1774-1839 NRA: Bentinck, Lord William Henry Cavendish- (1774-1839) Lieutenant General Governor General of India DNB: Bentinck, Lord William Henry Cavendish- [known as Lord William Bentinck] (1774-1839), army officer, diplomatist, and governor-general of India LBT ID: WiBenti1839 VIAF ID: 35251879 LOC ID: n50007413	B/BAP: 1774-09-14 DIED: 1839-06-17
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He was governor of Madras (1803), served in Spain, was governor of Bengal (1827) and the first governor-general of India (1833).
REFERENCES TO Lord William Henry Cavendish- Bentinck: James Demaria to Cyrus Redding, 1816 in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 5 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 20 October 1835 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1835 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IX. Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 24 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 12