Benthall, John Everett, 1836-1846
BENTHALL, JOHN EVERETT, elder son of John Benthall (qv), and his first wife; b. 24 Mar 1836; adm. 6 Jan 1844; left 1846; d. 19 Nov 1846; buried in the North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
BENTHALL, JOHN, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 8 Feb 1808 [but if so, too young for ordination as priest 1830 ?]; adm. (G) 12 Jan 1818; Min. Can. 1819; KS 1820; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1824, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825, matr. Mich. 1824; BA 1828; MA 1831 (incorp. Oxford 14 May 1853); ordained deacon (London) 14 Jun 1829, priest 5 Jun 1830; Usher at the School 1829-46, Housemaster 1832-46; Chaplain to Archibald Kennedy, 2nd Marquis of Ailsa (qv), 1846-70; Vicar of Willen, Bucks., from 1852; m. 1st, 20 May 1835 Harriet, youngest child of Joseph Everett, Salisbury, Wilts.; m. 2nd, 7 May 1861 Frances, dau. of William Levi, Moulsoe, nr. Newport Pagnell, Bucks.; d. 1 Sep 1887.
BENTHALL, THORNTON, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 7 Oct 1814; adm. 12 Jan 1829; served in Danish Army during Prussian-Danish war of 1848-9; went to live in Christiania (now Oslo), where he established, under the name of Thomas Bennett, a tourist office well known throughout Norway; m.; d. at Christiania 7 Mar 1898.
Benthall, William Henry, 1837-1909
BENTHALL, WILLIAM HENRY, younger son of John Benthall (qv) and his first wife; b. 3 Jul 1837; adm. 6 Jan 1844; left 1846; at Marlborough Coll. Feb 1851-Mich 1856; Clare Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1856, scholar, matr. Mich. 1856; BA 1860; MA 1864; played rackets (doubles) for Cambridge 1858, cricket for Cambridge 1858-60, for Gentlemen v. Players 1859, 1861-3, and for Middlesex 1862, 1864, 1868; a clerk in the Board of Control, afterwards in the India Office; Precis Writer and Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Charles Wood, Lord Cranborne and Sir Stafford Northcote when Secretaries of State for India; Private Secretary to Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, 1868-74; m. 5 Apr 1866 his cousin Edith Mary, dau. of Edward Benthall, EICS Bengal; d. 4 Jan 1909.
BENTHALL, WILLIAM, son of William Searle Benthall (previously Bentall), Totnes and Buckfast Abbey, Devon, woollen manufacturer and banker, and Mary Ann, dau. of William Marshall MD, Totnes; b. 21 Jan 1803; adm. (G) 7 Jun 1815; KS 1817; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1821, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1821, scholar 1822, matr. Mich. 1821; a banker at Totnes c. 1823-41, when his partnership went bankrupt; m. 8 Sep 1831 Elizabeth Charlotte Cornish; d. 16 Jun 1877.
Bentham, Edward, ca. 1714-1774
BENTHAM, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1725/6; in under school list 1728. [Probably Edward Bentham, Clerk, Ticket Office, Navy Office 8 Apr 1730 – Feb 1732; Clerk, Treasurer’s Accounts, Navy Office 28 Feb 1732 – May 1733; again Clerk, Ticket Office 3 May 1733 – 20 Feb 1744; Second Chief Clerk, Ticket Office 20 Feb 1744 – Aug 1750, First Chief Clerk, Ticket Office, from 5 Aug 1750; d. 16 May 1774 (will proved PCC 20 May 1774)]
BENTHAM, JEREMY, son of Jeremiah Bentham, attorney-at-law, Red Lion Street, Houndsditch, London, and his first wife Alicia, widow of --- Whitehorne, and sister of George Woodward Grove (qv); b. 15 Feb 1747/8; adm. 1755; (Morel's according Bentham's memoir); elected KS 1759, but remained a Town Boy; left Aug 1760; Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 28 Jun 1760; BA 1764; MA 1767; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Jan 1763, called to bar 6 Nov 1769; did not practise his profession, but resident in chambers in Middle Temple 1766-9, Lincoln’s Inn from 1769; turned his mind to science and to speculations on politics and jurisprudence; his Fragment on Government, a masterly criticism of Blackstone’s Commentaries, appeared anonymously in 1776; friend and protege of Earl of Shelburne (later 1st Marquis of Lansdowne); a successful promoter of law reform and one of the ablest propagandists of the doctrine of utilitarianism; exercised great influence in the fields of ethics and jurisprudence; his published works were collected and edited by Sir John Bowring and John Hill Burton, in an eleven-volume edition published in 1843; his reminiscences of his school-days at Westminster appear in vol. x, 26-35, where it will be seen that his opinion of the instruction, discipline and usages of the School in his day was by no means flattering; two small MS volumes containing school and college exercises by him are preserved in the School Library; d. unm. 6 Jun 1832; his skeleton is preserved at University Coll., London. DNB.
BENTHAM, JOSEPH, son of Rev. Joseph Bentham DD, Rector of Broughton, Northants., and Frances, sister of Lewis Maidwell (qv); bapt. 8 Jun 1653; adm.; KS 1669; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Feb 1670/1, Hale Scholar 5 May 1671 (see his father’s letter of 8 May 1671 to Sir Joseph Williamson (qv), CSP Dom 1671, 221-2), matr. 1671; BA 1674/5; MA 1678; DD 1696; Fellow of Peterhouse 1677-87; ordained; Minor Canon of Westminster; Rector of Stevenage, Herts., from 29 Oct 1680; subscribed the petition to William of Orange requesting him to assume the Crown, 1688; an unsuccessful candidate for the Mastership of Peterhouse 1699; Prebendary of Lincoln from 7 Mar 1703/4; Rector of Abington Pigotts, Cambs., from 25 Jun 1718; m. ---, dau. of Thomas Ducket, Steeple Morden, Cambs.; d. 5 Apr 1723.
BENTHAM, SIR SAMUEL, brother of Jeremy Bentham (qv); b. 11 Jan 1757; adm. c. Apr 1763; in school list 1764; left 1770; apprenticed to William Gray, Master Shipwright at Woolwich and Chatham Dockyards, 2 Aug 1770 - Jan 1778; left Engand Aug 1779 with a view of studying “the ship building and naval economy of foreign powers”; arrived in Russia May 1780; superintendent of Prince Potemkin’s shipbuilding yard at Kritchev, with rank of Lieut. -Col. in Russian Army; directed the equipment of a fleet at Cherson, by which the Turks were severely defeated; rewarded with Russian knighthood of St. George, the rank of Brig. -Gen., and a sword of honour; returned to England 1791; Inspector-Gen. of Navy Works 25 Mar 1796 - Oct 1807; on mission to Russia 1805-7; Civil Architect and Engineer to the Navy 3 Dec 1808 - 25 Dec 1812; resident in France 1814-27; his pamphlets on professional subjects were published in a collected form in 1827; m. 26 Oct 1796 Mary Sophia, eldest dau. of George Fordyce MD FRS; d. 31 May 1831. DNB.
BENTHAM, SAMUEL; b.; in school lists 1727/8; BB 1729-33. [Possibly Samuel Bentham, son of Joseph Bentham, bapt. St. Martin, Coney Street, York 16 Jun 1718 (IGI)]