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BENTLEY, EDWARD; b. West Horndon, Essex; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1595, adm. scholar 1596; BA 1599/1600; MA 1603; ordained deacon 25 Sep 1608, priest 25 Sep 1609, aged 31 (both London); Curate, St. Mary-at-Hill, London; a legatee in the will of John Bowle (qv), dated 16 Apr 1637, in which Bowle mentions their friendship of forty-six years. [Perhaps Edward Bentley, son of Anthony Bentley, bapt. Belchamp Walter, Essex 15 Dec 1577 (IGI)]

BENTLEY, JAMES CUMBERLAND, brother of Thomas Richard Bentley (qv); b.; adm. 11 Mar 1772; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1777; entered Royal Navy; adm. Middle Temple 11 Jun 1796; perhaps Cumberland Bentley, Esq., living at St. Paul’s Walden, Herts., 1793; m. 17 Jan 1785 Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of Thomas Staunton MP, Stonegrove, Bucks., and Holbrook, Suffolk; d. 1812 (will proved PCC 27 Jul 1812, as of Paddington).

BENTLEY, THOMAS RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Bentley, Teddington, Middlesex, artist and dramatist, and grandson of Rev. Richard Bentley DD, Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm. 24 Mar 1768; KS 1772; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1776, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1776, aged 17, scholar 18 Apr 1777, matr. Mich. 1777; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 27 Nov 1779, called to bar 5 Feb 1785; d. at Calais Oct 1831.

BENTLEY-INNES, HENRY ROBERT WEMYSS, youngest son of Frederick Stocks Bentley (afterwards Bentley-Innes), Ilminster House, Caithness, barrister, and Henrietta, only child of Robert Innes, Thrumster Castle, Wick; b. 24 Apr 1866; adm. 26 Jan 1877; left Jun 1877; farming at Highfield, Essex. [“mental weakness”, note by Stenning].

BENTLY, ---; in school list 1754.

BENTON, ---; in under school lists 1721-3.

BENTON, LEONARD; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1717; in under school list 1720. [Possibly bapt. St. John Zachary, London 1 May 1704, son of John Benton, and Mary --, although date of baptism seems too early]

Bentwich, Joseph Solomon, son of Herbert Bentwich, of Fountain Court, Temple, barrister­at-law, by Susannah, daughter of Joseph Solomon, of Maida Vale, London; b. Feb. 3, 1902; adm. as a non-resident K.S. Sept. 24, 1914 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1920, having previously obtained an open scholarship there for science, matric. Michaelmas 1920; senior scholar 1921; 1st class Math. Trip., part 1, 1921; Wrangler, part 2, 1923; Stewart of Rannock Scholar (Hebrew) 1922; B.A. 1923; M.A. 1928; teacher, Gymnasium, Tel-Aviv, Palestine, 1925; district inspector, Jewish schools, Palestine, 1928; senior inspector 1937; asst. director 1944; Headmaster, Reali Secondary School, Haifa, 1948; Lecturer in Education, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem 1955; senior inspector, Ministry of Education, since 1960; m. Sept. 11, 1924, Sarah, daughter of Hilleh Yofe, of Haifa; d. 1982.

Benvenisti, Jaques Lincoln, son of Leon Benvenisti, of Hampstead; b. Aug. 7, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1909, matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1913; joined the H. A. C. at the outbreak of Great War I; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (T.F.) March 5, 1915, Lieut. June 1, 1916.

BENYON (or BENION), THOMAS, son of Thomas Benyon, London; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1626, matr. 19 Oct 1627, aged 19, Westminster Student to death; BA 1630; d. 1635.