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BENTINCK, LORD EDWARD CHARLES CAVENDISH, brother of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv); b. 3 Mar 1744; in school list 1754; a boarder at Mrs Morel’s house, where he “occupied as many as two or three rooms” (Bentham, Works, x, 27); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 Nov 1761; Grand Tour (France, Netherlands, Gemany) 1764-6; MP Lewes 23 Dec 1766-8, Carlisle 1768-74, Nottinghamshire 11 Jan 1775-96, Clitheroe 1796-1802; m. 23 Dec 1782 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Richard Cumberland (qv); d. at Brussels 8 Oct 1819.

BENTINCK, WILLIAM HENRY EDWARD, elder son of Lord Edward Charles Cavendish Bentinck (qv); b. 2 Feb 1784; adm. 3 Jul 1794 (Clapham); in school lists 1795, 1797, 1801; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Feb 1802, Canoneer Student; BA 1805; MA 1808; private secretary to his uncle, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (qv), when Prime Minister; ordained priest 7 Feb 1808 (York); Rector of Sigglesthorne, Yorks., 21 Mar 1808 (still 1829); Canon Residentiary of Westminster 7 Oct 1809- Oct 1864; instrumental in getting the knee-breeches which used to be worn by the KSS abolished in 1843; built and endowed at his own cost Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, completed 1852; Clerk of Signet (sinecure) 11 Dec 1802 - 7 Aug 1851, when office abolished; m. 19 Jul 1814 Frances, dau. of Ven. Thomas Constable, Rector of Sigglesthorne, Yorks., and Archdeacon Yorkshire East Riding; d. 29 Sep 1868.

BENTINCK, WILLIAM; b.; adm. Jan 1803 (Clapham); in school list May 1803, Oct 1803; left 1805. [Presumably William Frederik Christiaan Bentinck, Graf von Bentinck, second son of Jan Carel Bentinck, Graf von Bentinck, and Lady Jemima Ellen de Reede de Ginkell, eldest dau. of Frederick de Ginkell, 6th Earl of Athlone; b. 15 Nov 1787; Chamberlain to King of Holland; m. 16 Apr 1841 Countess Pauline Albertine, second dau., of Frederick Francis, Graf von Münnich; d. 8 Jun 1855. No other William Bentinck among the descendants of the 1st Earl of Portland seems to have been of the right age to have been at the school between 1803 and 1805]

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]