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Bentham (surname)
Bentham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Billy Bentham, English rugby league footballer of the 1920s * Charles Bentham, 18th-century English shipwright in Dutch service * Craig Bentham (born 1985), English association footballer * Edward Bentham (1707–1776), English theologian * Ethel Bentham (1861–1931), Irish doctor, politician and suffragette * George Bentham (1800–1884), English botanist * George Bentham (1843–1911), British operatic tenor * George Jackson Bentham (1863–1929), British politician * Howard Bentham (born 1965), British radio personality * Isaac Bentham (1886–1917), British water polo player * James Bentham (–1794), English clergyman and historian of Ely Cathedral * Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), English philosopher and jurist who developed utilitarianism * John Bentham (born 1963), English association footballer * Joseph Bentham (1593/94–1671), Church of England minister and writer on theology * Lee Bentham (born 1970), Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bentham
William Bentham (birth unknown – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and 1920s. He played at representative level for Great Britain national rugby league team, Great Britain, England national rugby league team, England and Rugby League War of the Roses, Lancashire, and at club level for Broughton Rangers, as a . International honours Billy Bentham won Cap (sport), caps for England national rugby league team, England while at Broughton Rangers in 1922 against Wales national rugby league team, Wales, in 1926 against Wales, and won Cap (sport), caps for Great Britain national rugby league team, Great Britain while at Broughton Rangers in 1924 against New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand (2 matches). References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Bentham, William Broughton Rangers players England national rugby league team players English rugby league players Great Britain national rugby league team players L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Bentham
Lee Bentham (born July 27, 1970) is a Canadian former racing driver from Richmond Hill, Ontario. In 1990 and 1992 he competed in the Formula K karting World Championship series. He moved to cars in the Toyota Atlantic series in 1995 in a successful partial-season program that managed to place Bentham on the podium twice and finished 8th in points. The following year Bentham captured 7 podiums and was the series runner-up. 1997 was less successful as he only finished 5th in series points. He also competed for Forsythe Racing in the Indy Lights series that season and won on the oval at Gateway International Raceway and finished 5th in points. 1998 was Bentham's breakout year as he captured three wins and seven podiums on his way to the Toyota Atlantic Championship for Forsythe Championship Racing. 1999 was his final year of top-level racing and was another year in Atlantics where he won a single race and finished 6th in points. Since 2012, Bentham has been the Driver Developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Bentham (Lost)
John Locke is a fictional character played by Terry O'Quinn on the ABC television series ''Lost''. He is named after the English philosopher of the same name. In 2007, O'Quinn won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Locke.King, Susan, (September 16, 2007)Emmys Live, ''The Los Angeles Times Envelope''. Retrieved on September 16, 2007. Locke is introduced in the first season as a mysterious, intellectual and stoic character with an affinity for living out in the wild and a penchant for hunting and tracking. He believes in mystical and spiritual explanations for why things happen on the island due to a self-described "miracle" happening to him after the crash of Oceanic 815. His stoicism and mystical outlook dominate his character and are the basis for many of his relationships and interactions on the show. Arc Prior to the crash John Locke was born to teenager Emily Locke on May 30, 1956. In his early years he showed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Bentham
Trevor Bentham (born 11 October 1943) is a British former stage manager and screenwriter (''A Month by the Lake'' and ''The Clandestine Marriage''). For 22 years, he was the partner of British actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne. They met in 1968 when Bentham was stage-managing the Royal Court Theatre. From 1979 until Hawthorne's death in 2001, they lived together in Radwell near Baldock Baldock ( ) is a historic market town and unparished area in the local government district of North Hertfordshire in the county of Hertfordshire, England, where the River Ivel rises. It lies north of London, southeast of Bedford, and north n ... and latterly at Thundridge, both in Hertfordshire, England. The two were fundraisers for Garden House Hospice in Letchworth, Herts hospice and other local charities. Bentham was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 1997. References External links * 1943 births English screenwriters English male screenwriters British LGBT screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bentham
Thomas Bentham (1513/14–1579) was a scholar and a Protestant minister. One of the Marian exiles, he returned to England to minister to an underground congregation in London. He was made the first Elizabethan bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, serving from 1560 until his death in 1579. Life Bentham was born in 1513/14, to unknown parents, in Sherburn, Yorkshire (although which of the two places of this name is uncertain). He was admitted perpetual fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, on 10 November 1546, proceeded M.A. in 1547, and "about that time did solely addict his mind to the study of theology and to the learning of the Hebrew tongue, in which last he was most excellent, as in those of Greek and Latin". On the accession of Mary he was turned out of his fellowship "for his forward and malapert zeal against the catholic religion in the time of Edward VI, by the visitors appointed by her to regulate the university". He went to Zurich and afterwards to Basle, and became preach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Bentham
Stanley Joseph Bentham (17 March 1915 – 29 May 2002) was an English footballer. Born at Leigh, Lancashire, in 1915, he had a trial with Football League club Bolton Wanderers as a teenager in the early 1930s but was not offered a professional contract and signed for non-league Wigan Athletic instead. He played five times for the club in the 1933-34 season as they won the Cheshire County League title, scoring three goals. He turned professional on 1 January 1935, still only aged 18, when First Division giants Everton signed him. He made his senior debut on 23 November 1935 in a league game against Grimsby Town at Blundell Park and was soon a regular first team player, missing just one league game in the 1938-39 season, but he was 23 years old when in September of that year World War II broke out and by the time league action resumed for the 1946-47 season, he was already 30 years old and had lost most of the prime years of his career. He remained with Everton as a player b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Bentham
Sir Samuel Bentham (11 January 1757 – 31 May 1831) was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect 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. Early life Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an attorney, and his older brother was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, five other siblings having died in infancy or early childhood, and their mother dying in 1766. At the age of 14, Bentham was apprenticed to a shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, serving there and at Chatham Dockyard, before completing his 7-year training at the Naval Academy in Portsmouth. Career Russia In 1780 he moved to Russia, where he was employed in the service of Prince Potemkin, who had an establishment designed to promote the introduction of various arts of civilization. Initially hired as a shipbuilder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Bentham
Rosie Elizabeth Bentham (born 29 July 2001) is an English actress, who has appeared as Gabby Thomas in ''Emmerdale'' since January 2016. Early and personal life Bentham was born in 2001 to John and Marianne Bentham, who acted as her chaperones whilst filming. Her father John, who was chaplain of the University of Nottingham, died on 6 August 2019 from a pulmonary embolism. Bentham attended The Nottingham Emmanuel School. Career Bentham joined The Television Workshop in 2013, and worked on plays, such as Oklahoma, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound of Music and Annie. Bentham auditioned for ''Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, '' ...'' when producers contacted The Television Workshop, and had four callbacks before being offered the part of Gabby Thomas. She made her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Bentham
Phil Bentham (born 28 October 1971) is a Premier League football VAR coach and former English professional rugby league Referee & video referee. He was one of the Rugby Football League's full-time match officials since its inception in 2007. Referee in 7 major finals and Video Referee in 9 major finals. Background Bentham was born in Leigh, Lancashire, England. First games Bentham's first pro game was Sheffield Eagles V London Skolars on 22 February 2004. His first Super League game was Wakefield Trinity V Hull F.C. on 11 September 2005. Major Finals Bentham was referee for both the 2011 Super League Grand Final and 2014 Super League Grand Finals. He was also the Video Referee in 2009, 2012 2015 and 2017 finals. He was the touch judge in the 2005 Challenge Cup Final, and He was the video referee in the 2007 Challenge Cup Final in 2009 Challenge Cup, and 2012. He has also Refereed in the 2014 Four Nations Final in Wellington, New Zealand He was the referee in the 2011 Chal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy George Bentham
Percy George Bentham (1883–1936) was a British sculptor whose works include portrait busts, statues and several war memorials. He was a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, Royal Society of British Sculptors, and a member of the Art Workers' Guild. He was born in Fulham in 1883. He studied at City and Guilds of London Art School, City and Guilds of London School of Art under William Silver Frith, the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy School, and in Paris. In 1907 he was awarded a first prize of £20 and a silver medal, for a set of four models of a figure from the life. He was a pupil of Alfred Drury R.A., and assistant to Albert Bruce-Joy and also in the studio of William Robert Colton. Career He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy from 1915 to 1930. One of his works is 'Navigation', a stone relief on the 122 Leadenhall Street, Leadenhall building in the City of London, formerly the site of the P&O (company), Peninsular & Oriental Steam Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Bentham
Nathan "Nat" Bentham (8 March 1900 - 1975) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Wigan Highfield, Halifax and Warrington, as a . Club career Bentham started his career at Wigan Highfield. Due to the club's financial problems, he was transferred to Halifax during November 1928. He was transferred to Warrington for a fee of £400 during January 1930. International honours Nat Bentham won caps for England while at Wigan Highfield in 1928 against Wales (2 matches), while at Halifax in 1929 against Other Nationalities, while at Warrington in 1930 against Other Nationalities (2 matches), and won caps for Great Britain while at Wigan Highfield in 1928 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), while at Halifax in 1929-30 against Australia (2 matches), and while at Warrington against Australia (2 matches). Bentham was the only G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Sophia Bentham
Mary Sophia Bentham ( 1765 – 1858) was a British botanist and author. Bentham was daughter of chemist George Fordyce (1736–1802), wife of mechanical engineer Samuel Bentham (1757–1831), and mother of botanist George Bentham George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studi ... (1800–1884). References {{Authority control British women scientists 1858 deaths British botanists Year of birth uncertain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
