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Bentham, Samuel, 1757-1831
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1757-1831
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.