Question: What nationality is Lord William Bentinck?
Context: The Bengal Sati Regulation, or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was a legal act promulgated in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck, which made the practice of sati or suttee—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband—illegal in all jurisdictions of British India and subject to prosecution. Two ships named "Lord William Bentinck" were launched in 1828, both named for Lord William Bentinck: Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, Baron Bentinck of Diepenheim and Schoonheten, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (20 July 1649, Diepenheim, Overijssel – 23 November 1709, Bulstrode Park, Buckinghamshire) was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, and future King of England.  He was steady, sensible, modest and usually moderate.  The friendship and cooperation stopped in 1699. Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British soldier and statesman.  He served as Governor-General of India from 1828 to 1835. The Battle of Ordal on 12 and 13 September 1813 saw a First French Empire corps led by Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet make a night assault on a position held by Lieutenant General Lord William Bentinck's smaller Anglo-Allied and Spanish advance guard.  The Allies, under the tactical direction of Colonel Frederick Adam, were defeated and driven from a strong position at the Ordal defile largely because they failed to post adequate pickets.  In an action the next morning at Vilafranca del Penedès, the Allied cavalry clashed with the pursuing French horsemen.  The actions occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars.  Ordal and El Lledoner are located on Highway N-340 between Molins de Rei and Vilafranca. Cavendish-Bentinck is a surname associated with the Dukes of Portland and their descendants.  Bentinck is a Dutch surname brought to England by William Bentinck, an advisor to William III of England.  Cavendish was added to the family name by Bentinck's great-grandson the 3rd Duke of Portland, who married in 1766 Lady Dorothy Cavendish, daughter of the 4th Duke of Devonshire.  By a family arrangement, she was the heiress to estates which had previously belonged to the defunct Newcastle branch of the Cavendish family, including Welbeck Abbey, which became the principal seat of the Dukes of Portland.  Following the death of the 9th Duke in 1990, the family name became extinct. Willem, Count Bentinck, Lord of Rhoon and Pendrecht (6 November 1704 – 13 October 1774) was a Dutch nobleman and politician, and the eldest son from the second marriage of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.  He was created Count (Graf) Bentinck of the Holy Roman Empire in 1732.  Bentinck played a leading role in the Orangist revolution of 1747 in the Netherlands. Mary Capel, Countess of Essex (1679 – 20 August 1726), born Lady Mary Bentinck, was the daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William, Prince of Orange (the future King of England) and his wife Anne Villiers (died 30 November 1688). The Treaty of Bastia was an agreement signed in 1814 (near the end of the Napoleonic Wars) between Corsican nationalists and Lord William Bentinck, commander of British forces in Italy.  It gave sovereignty over the island to the British Crown, while allowing local self-government. The English Education Act was a legislative Act of the Council of India in 1835 giving effect to a decision in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck, the then Governor-General of British India, to reallocate funds the East India Company was required by the British Parliament to spend on education and literature in India.  Formerly, they had supported traditional Muslim and Hindu education and the publication of literature in the native learned tongues (Sanskrit and Persian); henceforward they were to support establishments teaching a Western curriculum with English as the language of instruction.  Together with other measures promoting English as the language of administration and of the higher law courts (replacing Persian), this led eventually to English becoming one of the languages of India, rather than simply the native tongue of its foreign rulers.
Answer: British