See also:BENTINCK, See also:LORD See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
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WILLIAM See also:GEORGE See also:FREDERICK See also:CAVENDISH , better known as LORD GEORGE BENTINCK (1802-1848), See also:British politician, was the second surviving son of the See also:fourth See also:duke of See also:Portland, by Henrietta, See also:sister of Viscountess See also:Canning, and was See also:born on the 27th of See also:February 1802. He was educated at See also:home until he obtained his See also:commission as See also:cornet in the loth hussars at the See also:age of seventeen. He practically retired from the See also:army in 1822 and acted for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as private secretary to his See also:uncle George Canning. In 1828 he succeeded his uncle Lord William Bentinck as member for See also:Lynn-Regis, and continued to represent that See also:constituency during the remaining twenty years of his See also:life. His failures as a See also:speaker in See also:parliament seem to have discouraged him from the See also:attempt to acquire reputation as a politician, and till within three years of his See also:death he was little known out of the sporting See also:world. As one of the leaders on " the See also:turf," however, he was distinguished by that integrity, See also:judgment and indomitable determination which, when brought to See also:bear upon weightier matters, quickly gave him a position of first-See also:rate importance in the See also:political world. On his first entrance into parliament he belonged to the moderate Whig party, and voted in favour of See also:Catholic emancipation, as also for the Reform See also:Bill, though he opposed some of its See also:principal details. Soon after, however, he joined the ranks of the opposition, with whom he sided up to the important era of 1846. When, in that See also:year, See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel openly declared in favour of See also:free See also:trade, the See also:advocates of the See also:corn-See also:laws, then without a See also:leader, after several ineffectual attempts at organization, discovered that Lord George Bentinck was the only See also:man of position and See also:family (for Disraeli's time was not yet come) around whom the several sections of the opposition could be brought to rally. His sudden See also:elevation took the public by surprise; but he soon gave convincing See also:evidence of See also:powers so formidable that the Protectionist party under his leadership was at once stiffened into real importance. Towards Peel, in particular, his hostility was uncompromising. Believing, as he himself expressed it, that that statesman and his colleagues had "hounded to the death his illustrious relative" Canning, he combined with his political opposition a degree of See also:personal animosity that gave additional force to his invective. On entering on his new position, he at once abandoned his connexion with the turf, disposed of his magnificent See also:stud and devoted his whole energies to the laborious duties of a See also:parliamentary leader. Apart from the question of the corn-laws, however, his politics were decidedly See also:independent. In opposition to the See also:rest of his party, he supported the bill for removing the Jewish disabilities, and was favourable to the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for the See also:payment of the See also:Roman Catholic See also:clergy in See also:Ireland by the landowners. The result was that on See also:December 23rd, 1847, he wrote a See also:letter resigning the Protectionist leadership, though he still remained active in politics. But his See also:positive abilities as a constructive statesman were not to be tested, for he died suddenly at Welbeck on the 21St of See also:September 1848. It was to be See also:left to Disraeli to bring the Conserva-
tive party into See also:power, with See also:Protection outside its See also:programme. See Lord George Bentinck: a Political See also:Biography (1851), by B. Disraeli (Lord See also:Beaconsfield).
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