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Bentham, Samuel

(1757–1831)

Catherine Pease-Watkin

https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2155

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Bentham, Samuel (1757–1831), naval architect and inventor, was born in London on 11 January 1757, the youngest of the seven children of Jeremiah Bentham (1712–1792), an attorney, and his wife, Alicia Woodward Whitehorne (d. 1759), the eldest daughter of Thomas Grove, an ...

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date: 06 March 2021

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