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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]

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.

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.

BERNARD, SIR FRANCIS, BART., eldest son of Rev. Francis Bernard BD, Rector of Brightwell, Berks., and Margaret, dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire; b. 12 Jul 1712 (IGI); in school list 1721; KS (aged 12) 1725; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1729, matr. 12 Jun 1729, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1729 - 19 Jan 1742 (void, by marriage); BA 1733; MA 1736; DCL 2 Jul 1772; adm. Middle Temple 22 Oct 1733, called to bar 29 Apr 1737, Bencher 26 Jan 1770; Midland Circuit; Recorder of Boston, Lincs., 1757; Governor of New Jersey 27 Jan 1758- Nov 1759; Governor of Massachusetts Bay 27 Nov 1759; his administration of British ministerial policy and his want of political tact appear to have hastened the American War of Independence; created baronet 5 Apr 1769; recalled to England 1769, remaining nominally Governor until 1771; inherited Nether Winchendon estate, Bucks., 1771; a Commissioner of Excise (I) 22 Jan 1773- Dec 1774; a Commissioner of Customs (I) 25 Dec 1773 - Dec 1774; edited the Latin odes of his stepfather Anthony Alsop (qv) in 1752; author of several pamphlets; m. 1741 Amelia, dau. of Stephen Offley, Norton Hall, Derbs.; d. 16 Jun 1779. 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.

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)]

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, fifth son of Richard Benyon Berens (q.v.); b. Oct. 24, 1873; adm. May 10, 1888 (R); left July 1892; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1892; B.A. 1897; d. Oct. 1938.

BERENS, RICHARD BENYON, elder son of Richard Beauvoir Berens (qv); b. 15 Mar 1834; adm. (G) 26 Apr 1848; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1852; BA 1857; MA 1865; of Kevington, Kent; DL JP Kent, High Sheriff 1893; m. 13 Jun 1860 Fanny Georgina, sister of George Stewart Park (qv); d. 28 Oct 1916.

BERKELEY, JOSHUA, second son of Rev. Robert Berkeley DD, Treasurer and Vicar-General of Cloyne, and Anne Elizabeth Dawson; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1756; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jan 1760, Canoneer Student 4 Jan 1760 - 27 May 1783 (void, expiry year of grace as D. Tuam), Tutor 1767-79, Junior Censor 1771, Senior Censor 1772-3; BA 1763; MA 1766; BD 1776; DD 1780; Proctor 1774; adm. Middle Temple 2 Feb 1759; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1767, priest 28 May 1768 (both Oxford); Curate, Cowley, Oxfordshire, 1775; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1 May 1778; Dean of Tuam from 15 May 1782; d. unm. 21 Jun 1807.