Bentinck, George

has biography | a une biographie: British politician in the nineteenth century.

The Bentinck family had a number of ties to the British Empire. George Bentinck's uncle, Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), served as Governor of Madras, Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, and Governor-General in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. Lord William Bentinck also made an unsuccessful claim for slavery compensation as a trustee. George Bentinck's great-great-grandfather, Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (1682-1726) had been a slave-owner and colonial administrator in Jamaica, where he served as Governor-General from 1721 to 1726.
was born | est né: 27 February 1802
died in | est mort par: 21 September 1848
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Hansard; Art UK; Legacies of British Slavery - Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck; Legacies of British Slavery - Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland; Sheryllynne Haggerty and Susanne Seymour, 'Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s', Slavery and Abolition, 39,4 (2018) 642-662

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Statue of George Bentinck, Cavendish Square