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.
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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)]
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, 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.
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.
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, ARTHUR, brother of William Benthall (qv); b. 5 Apr 1825; adm. 21 Jan 1833 (Benthall's); QS 1838; left 1839; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 10 Oct 1843, matr. Lent 1844; BA 1848; MA 1851; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Nov 1843, called to bar 23 Nov 1848; a clerk in the Post Office 1850, subsequently Assistant Secretary; m. 1 Sep 1855 Alice Margaret, dau. of Rev. John Reynolds Wardale, Rector of Higham Gobion, Beds.; d. 16 Feb 1882.
BENT, JOHN, eldest son of James Bent MD, Bafford, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.; bapt. Newcastle under Lyme 30 Dec 1776 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 14) 1791; Capt. of the School 1795; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1796, adm. pens. 25 May 1796, scholar 29 Apr 1797, did not matr.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 12 Jun 1798; d. from a wound caused by the accidental discharge of a fowling piece, 12 Nov 1798.
BENSON, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1600, Westminster Student Jan 1600/1-13, but before being adm. student went to Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1600, aged 18; BA 1604; MA 1607; BD 1618; MA 1622; ordained priest 30 May 1613 (York); Vicar of Wath on Dearne, Yorks., from May 1613; Chaplain to Archbishop of York 1616; Rector of Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts., from 8 Oct 1616; Prebendary of Southwell 9 Mar 1622 and of York from 15 Jul 1625; Rector of Withernwick, Yorks., c. 1627; Rector of Walesby, Yorks., 1641; m.; buried at Carlton-in-Lindrick, Notts. 17 Aug 1644.
BENSON, THOMAS, second son of Thomas Benson (elected 1600, qv); bapt. 19 Oct 1617; adm.; KS 1633; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1637, matr. 19 Nov 1637, aged 19, Westminster Student; BA 1641; MA 1644.