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.
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, 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.
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.