Samuel Bentham
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Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham was an English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons. He was th
Samuel Bentham
Rigging block from HMS Victory
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Samuel Bentham
…credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons. He was the only surviving sibling of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with whom he had a close bond. Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an attorney, and his older brother…
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1828
Portrait of Bentham by the studio of Thomas Frye, 1760–1762
Bentham's auto-icon in 2003
Bentham's auto-icon in a new display case at University College London's Student Centre in 2020