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Bentinck may refer to:
People:
- Bentinck family, a prominent family in both Dutch and British nobility, including a list of British family members
- Bernhard Bentinck (1877-1931), English cricketer
Places:
- County of Bentinck, Queensland, Australia
- Bentinck, Ontario, Canada, a former township
- Bentinck, Derbyshire, England, a village
- Bentinck Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States
- Bentinck Island, Queensland, Australia, part of the South Wellesley Islands
- Bentinck Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Bentinck Kyun (Bentinck Island), Burma
Ships:
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, three Royal Navy ships
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, a World War II destroyer escort renamed and commissioned as USS Brennan
Other uses:
- Bengough Memorial Stakes, a Group 3 flat horse race originally called the Bentinck Stakes
- Bentinck Hotel, setting for the British TV series The Duchess of Duke Street
Usage examples of "bentinck".
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lord George Bentinck, by Benjamin Disraeli This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
Lord George Bentinck had sat for eighteen years in Parliament, and, before he entered it, had been for three years private secretary to Mr.
All was furnished by this lately forlorn party except a leader, and even then many eyes were turned and some hopeful murmurs addressed towards Lord George Bentinck, who in the course of this morning had given such various proofs of his fitness and such evidence of his resource.
Not, therefore, excited by vanity, but sustained by self-respect, by an overpowering feeling that he owed it to himself and the opinions he held, to show to the world that they had not been lightly adopted and should not be lightly laid aside, Bentinck rose, long past the noon of night, at the end of this memorable debate, to undertake an office from which the most successful and most experienced rhetoricians of Parliament would have shrunk with intuitive discretion.
It should also be remarked of Lord George Bentinck, that in his most complicated calculations he never sought aid from notes.
IN THE meantime, besides the prolonged and unforeseen resistance of the Protectionists, there were other and unexpected causes at work which equally, or perhaps even more powerfully tended to the fulfilment of the scheme of delay, which Lord George Bentinck had recommended his friends to adopt and encourage.
When, therefore, at the end of the month of March, Lord George Bentinck was invited to attend a meeting of his friends, held at the house of Mr.
Lord George Bentinck would kindly consent to be the organ of the party on the occasion, and state their view to the House, the cheering was very hearty.
Upon this, Lord George Bentinck, after a hurried and apparently agitated conversation with the Secretary of the Treasury and others connected with the government, rose to move the adjournment of the House.
Sir William concluded with a very earnest appeal to Lord George Bentinck and his friends, who might at no very distant period have the government of Ireland entrusted to them, not, for the sake of a momentary postponement of the Corn Bill, to place themselves, by voting for this measure of coercion, in collision with the Irish nation.
He called upon Lord George Bentinck to weigh the position in which he was placed.
Lord George Bentinck, which, on more than one subsequent occasion, promised to bring important results.
And it was resolved among the most considerable of the country gentlemen to make some earnest and well-combined effort, during the recess, to induce Lord George Bentinck to waive the unwillingness he had so often expressed of becoming their avowed and responsible leader.
When Lord George Bentinck first threw himself into the breach, he was influenced only by a feeling of indignation at the manner in which he thought the Conservative party had been trifled with by the government and Lord Stanley, his personal friend and political leader, deserted by a majority of the cabinet.
What Lord George Bentinck appreciated most in a parliamentary speaker was brilliancy: quickness of perception, promptness of repartee, clear and concise argument, a fresh and felicitous quotation, wit and picture, and, if necessary, a passionate appeal that should never pass the line of high-bred sentiment.