Commemorative medals/Personality or portrait
medal
Composition
Bronze
Weight
Diameter
52 mm
Thickness
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Edge
Period
Notice
Charles Frederick Carter
Reference(s)
Obverse description
Bust left
Obverse lettering
LORD
WILLIAM BENTINCK
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Legend
Reverse lettering
WESTMACOTT. AT CALCUTTA
TO
WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK WHO DURING SEVEN YEARS RULED INDIA WITH
EMINENT PRUDENCE, INTEGRITY, AND BENEVOLENCE; WHO PLACED AT THE
HEAD OF A GREAT EMPIRE. NEVER LAID ASIDE THE SIMPLICITY AND
MODERATION OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO INFUSED INTO ORIENTAL DESPOTISM
THE SPIRIT OF ERITISH FREEDOM; WHO NEVER FORGOT THAT THE END OF
GOVERNMENT IS THE HAPPINESS OF THE GOVERNED WHO ABOLISHED CRIEL
RITES WHO EFFACED HUMILIATING DISTINCTIONS WHO GAVE LIBERTY TO THE
EXPRESSION OF PUBLIC OPINION: WHOSE CONSTANT STUDY IT WAS TO
ELEVATE THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CHARACTER OF THE NATION
COMMITTED
TO HIS CHARGE: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY MEN WHO, DIFFERING IN
RACE IN MANNERS.IN LANGUAGE, AND IN RELIGION.CHERISH WITH EQUAL
VENERATION AND GRATITUDE THE MEMORY OF HIS WISE, UPRIGHT. JAND
PATERNAL ADMINT ISTRATIO
