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Robert or Bob Bentley may refer to: * Robert Bentley (botanist) (1821–1893), English botanist *Robert Bentley (animator) (1907–2000), American animator *Robert Bentley (cricketer) (born 1958), Zimbabwean cricketer * Robert Bentley (police officer) (died 1910), British police officer * Robert J. Bentley (born 1943), retired physician, Governor of Alabama, 2011–2017 * Bob Bentley (politician) (1928–2013), Canadian politician *Bobby Bentley Bobby Bentley (born August 30, 1968) is an American football coach and former player. He currently serves as an analyst at the University of Central Florida. He was one of the nation's most successful high school coaches before accepting his firs ...

Robert Bentley (botanist)
Robert Bentley (25 March 1821 – 24 December 1893) was an English botanist. He is perhaps best remembered today for the four-volume ''Medicinal Plants'', published in 1880 with Henry Trimen and containing over three hundred hand-colored plates by botanist David Blair. Life Robert Bentley was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1821. While apprenticed to a pharmacist in Tunbridge Wells, he developed an interest in botany. He subsequently studied medicine at King's College London, and became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1847 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1849. Bentley served as botany lecturer at the Medical School of the London Hospital, and in 1859 became Professor of Botany at King's College London. In 1874, Bentley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and he served as joint editor of the ''British Pharmacopeia'' of 1885. Bentley died at his home in Warwick Road, Kensington Kensington is a ...
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Robert Bentley (animator)
Robert Jarvis Bentley (11 March 1907 – 28 November 2000) was an American animator who worked for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Fleischer Studios, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, Tex Avery, Walter Lantz Productions, UPA (animation studio), UPA, Hanna-Barbera and Filmation among others. Early life Bentley was born in Philadelphia on March 11, 1907, the eldest child of three to John Harrison Bentley, Jr. and Hannah Helen Jarvis Bentley. John Harrison Bentley passed away in 1918, and later Hannah Helen married pioneer animator Leslie Elton, although this marriage did not last. Career Bentley started his animation career in 1929 as an assistant animator at The Van Beuren Corporation, the Van Beuren cartoon studio in New York City, later working for Les Elton's independent studio on his 1931 cartoon "Simon the Monk". He moved to the West Coast in 1935 to work briefly at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney's studio, then spent the next few years as a full-fledged animator in F ...
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Robert Bentley (cricketer)
Robert Mulock Bentley (born 3 November 1958) is a former first-class cricketer who played for both his native Rhodesia and Natal in the Currie Cup. Bentley lined up for Rhodesia for the first time in the 1978/79 Currie Cup. In the following season's campaign the team was renamed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia before the county became fully independent in 1980. Later that year he represented Zimbabwe in two first-class matches against Middlesex who were touring the country. While many of his teammates went on to play One Day International cricket for Zimbabwe, Bentley instead moved to South Africa and joined Natal. He was a regular batsman in the middle order at Natal, often at three, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. After spending the 1982 English summer as a professional at Lancashire League club Haslingden, Bentley returned to South Africa and had his most prolific season with 639 runs at 45.64. Also a capable off spin bowler, his first-class wickets include Graeme Pollock, Kepler W ...
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Robert Bentley (police Officer)
The siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries. The siege was the culmination of a series of events that began in December 1910, with an attempted jewellery robbery at Houndsditch in the City of London by a gang of Latvian immigrants which resulted in the murder of three policemen, the wounding of two others, and the death of George Gardstein, the leader of the Latvian gang. An investigation by the Metropolitan and City of London Police forces identified Gardstein's accomplices, most of whom were arrested within two weeks. The police were informed that the last two members of the gang were hiding at 100 Sidney Street in Stepney. The police evacuated local residents, and on the morning of 3 January a firefight broke out. Armed with inferior weapons, the police sought assistance from the army. The siege lasted for about six hours ...
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