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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, 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.

Béranger, Stewart Charles Walsh, son of Henri Lucien Béranger of Paris, and Marguerite Louisa Minnie, d. of Lionel George Lawrence Walsh; b. 19 June 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (A); left Apr. 1935; enlisted in 206th Infantry Regt, French Army; p.o.w.; killed while attempting to escape 21 May 1944.

Stewart Charles Walsh Béranger was born at Kensington, London on the 19th of June 1917 the only son of Henri Lucien “Harry” Béranger, an architect, and Marguerite Louisa Minnie (nee Walsh) Béranger of 62, Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court in London. He was christened at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton on the 30th of July 1917. He was educated at Westminster School on an Exhibition where he was up Ashburnham from September 1930 to April 1935. He played of part of Sidney Gibson in the farce “The Private Secretary” at the Westminster Theatre on the 29th of July 1933. He was a member of the Chess team and of the 1st Football XI from 1932 to 1935, where he played as goalkeeper and continued to play in the same position for the Old Westminsters XI. The Elizabethan wrote the following on his 1932/33 football season: - “Emerged from obscurity and from his very first game showed high promise of becoming a great goalkeeper. He has a fine sense of position, good hands and is very reliable. Does not yet punt the ball very well.”
On leaving school he moved to Paris as a student and lived at 89, Rue de Lille.
On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the 206th Infantry Regiment, French Army in 1939 and was captured at the fall of France in June 1940.
He was interned in a labour camp at Bruck sur la Mur where he was shot and killed while attempting to escape.
His father donated £100 towards the Westminster School war memorial appeal in his memory.
His place of burial is unknown.

BERE, SANDFORD, third son of His Hon. Montagu Bere QC, County Court Judge, Grimstone Horrabridge, Devon, and Cecil Henrietta, second dau. of Cdr. Thomas Wentworth Buller, RN, Strete Raleigh, Devon; b. 6 Jun 1862; adm. (J) 27 Jan 1876; exhibitioner 1876; QS 1877; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Triplett) 1881, adm. pens. 13 Jun 1881, matr. Mich. 1881; entered Indian Civil Service 6 Feb 1888; Assistant Commissioner, 4th grade, Burma, Jul 1888, 3rd grade, 1895, 2nd grade 1898; d. 17 Feb 1899.

Berens, Atherton, youngest son of Richard Benyon Berens (q.v.); b. May 21, 1877; adm. Jan. 15, 1891 (R); left July 1896; Pembroke Coll. Oxon., matric. Jan. 1897; served in Great War I in the R.A.S.C. 1915-8; m. Nov. 3, 1906, Wenefride Dorothy, eldest daughter of Joseph Watson Overbury, of Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London; d. Feb. 1940.

BERENS, EDWARD OSMOND, younger son of Richard Beauvoir Berens (qv); b. 27 Jul 1839; adm. (G) 19 Jun 1851; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1857; BA 1861; MA 1864; Treasurer, Elizabethan Club, from 1869; d. 13 Jan 1872.

BERENS, EDWARD RIOU, brother of William Joseph Berens (qv); b. 12 Jan 1807; adm. 22 Jun 1821 (Stelfox's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1825; migr. to St. Mary Hall; BA 1831; MA 1832; ordained deacon 1831 (lit. dim. from Canterbury), priest (Canterbury) 23 Dec 1832; Curate, Orpington with St. Mary Cray, Kent; Vicar of Broxted, Essex, 25 Jan 1833; Vicar of Wickford, Essex, 15 Feb 1833; Vicar of Downham, Essex, 11 Oct 1839 (dispensation to hold with Wickford, 1839); m. 21 Aug 1849 Sophia Frances, youngest dau. of Thomas Walpole, Stagbury, Surrey, Minister Plenipotentiary at Munich; d. 31 Jul 1856.