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  1. Hace 2 días · The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

  2. Hace 1 día · Lord William Bentinck became the first Governor General of India in 1834 under the Government of India Act 1833. The Company India ruled until 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Government of India Act 1858 , the India Office of the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj .

  3. Hace 3 días · The grant of the reversionary freehold to William III's favourite, William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland, was in preparation in December 1697, shortly before the Earl's departure for France as ambassador extraordinary to Louis XIV. In the previous year Portland had bought for £24,511 a large number of fee farm rents belonging to ...

  4. Hace 2 días · The house in Bulstrode Park was erected by the Duke of Somerset between 1855 and 1865 on the site of a house built by the notorious Judge Jeffreys in 1686 and enlarged by William Bentinck, the first Earl of Portland. On a hill to the south-east of the house are ancient earthworks.

  5. Hace 4 días · Bentinck personally absolved him from his promise and on July 4 he returned to his capital, as always amid cheering crowds. Lord William Bentinck was not among them. His conduct in recent months had not gone unnoticed by the British government.

  6. Hace 4 días · Among many other things made there were a pumping engine for the Lambeth Waterworks (1831) and the “Lord William Bentinck,” said to have been the first iron vessel built on the Thames (launched in 1832). Two wharves and houses, known as Nos. 7 and 9 Belvedere Road, were built on the northern portion of the land.