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Lord William Bentinck

1774 - 1839

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Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first Governor-General of India from 1834 to 1835. He has been credited for significant social and educational reforms in India, including abolishing sati, forbidding women to witness the cremations on the ghats of Varanasi, suppressing female infanticide and human sacrifice. Bentinck said, "the dreadful responsibility hanging over his head in this world and the next, if… he was to consent to the continuance of this practice (sati) one moment longer." Bentinck after consultation with the army and officials passed the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lord William Bentinck has received more than 988,123 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lord William Bentinck is the 7,181st most popular politician (up from 9,520th in 2019), the 1,507th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,140th in 2019) and the 239th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lord William Bentinck ranks 7,181 out of 15,577. Before him are Alberic I of Spoleto, Nestor Lakoba, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Alejandro Toledo, Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, and Armand Călinescu. After him are Ce Acatl Topiltzin, Leo Tindemans, Mithridates III of Pontus, Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, Sergei Stepashin, and Ron Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Lord William Bentinck ranks 17. Before him are Charles Bell, William Henry, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Christian Leopold von Buch, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Matthew Flinders. After him are Francis Baily, Robert Southey, Pierre Rode, Karl Mollweide, Václav Tomášek, and Daniel D. Tompkins. Among people deceased in 1839, Lord William Bentinck ranks 15. Before him are Princess Marie of Orléans, Pehr Henrik Ling, Charlotte Bonaparte, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Joseph Fesch, and Ferdinando Paer. After him are Joseph Anton Koch, Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Aloysia Weber, Mikhail Speransky, William Murdoch, and Lady Hester Stanhope.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lord William Bentinck ranks 1,507 out of 7,765. Before him are Alexander Cunningham (1814), Ciarán Hinds (1953), Dick Taylor (1943), John Martin (1789), Sidney Paget (1860), and Bill Ward (1948). After him are N. R. Pogson (1829), Algernon Blackwood (1869), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Vita Sackville-West (1892), David Garrick (1717), and Billy Connolly (1942).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Lord William Bentinck ranks 239. Before him are Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933), John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Emma Darwin (1808), Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770), and Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773). After him are Constantine II of Scotland (801), Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836), John Bowring (1792), Donald Maclean (1913), Lulach (1030), and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608).

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