46 Facts About Richard Bentley

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Richard Bentley FRS was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian.

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Richard Bentley showed that the sound represented in transcriptions of some Greek dialects by the letter digamma appeared in Homeric poetry, even though it was not represented there in writing by any letter.

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In 1717 Richard Bentley was appointed as the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.

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Richard Bentley was in charge of the second edition of Newton's Principia Mathematica, although he delegated most of the scientific work involved to his pupil Roger Cotes.

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Richard Bentley was born at his maternal grandparents' home at Oulton near Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, in northern England.

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Richard Bentley's father was Thomas Bentley, a yeoman farmer of Oulton.

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Richard Bentley afterwards obtained a scholarship and received the degrees of BA in 1680 and MA in 1683.

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8.

Richard Bentley never became a college fellow, which would have been the more natural course to an academic career.

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In 1689, Stillingfleet became bishop of Worcester and Richard Bentley's pupil went up to Wadham College, Oxford, accompanied by his tutor.

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At Oxford, Richard Bentley soon met John Mill, Humphrey Hody, and Edward Bernard.

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Richard Bentley studied the manuscripts of the Bodleian, Corpus Christi, and other college libraries.

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Richard Bentley wrote the Epistola ad Johannem Millium, which is about a hundred pages long and was included at the end of the Oxford Malalas.

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Richard Bentley was offered the appointment a third time in 1695 but declined it, as he was involved in too many other activities.

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Richard Bentley had some correspondence with Newton, then living in Trinity College, Cambridge, on the subject.

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In 1693 the curator of the royal library became vacant, and his friends tried to obtain the position for Richard Bentley, but did not have enough influence.

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In 1695 Richard Bentley received a royal chaplaincy and the living of Hartlebury.

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Richard Bentley had official apartments in St James's Palace and his first care was the royal library in Ashburnham House.

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Richard Bentley worked to restore the collection from a dilapidated condition.

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Richard Bentley persuaded the Earl of Marlborough to ask for additional rooms in the palace for the books.

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Richard Bentley enforced the law, ensuring that publishers delivered nearly one thousand volumes that had been purchased but not delivered.

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The University of Cambridge commissioned Richard Bentley to obtain Greek and Latin fonts for their classical books; he had these made in Holland.

22.

Richard Bentley did not settle down to the steady execution of any of the major projects he had started.

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For Graevius's Callimachus, Richard Bentley added a collection of the fragments with notes.

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Richard Bentley wrote the Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris, his major academic work, almost accidentally.

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In 1697, William Wotton, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, asked Richard Bentley to write out a paper exposing the spuriousness of the Epistles of Phalaris, long a subject of academic controversy.

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26.

Richard Bentley had already quarrelled with Bentley in trying to get the manuscript in the royal library collated for his edition.

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Richard Bentley arrived an outsider and proceeded to reform the college administration.

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Richard Bentley started a programme of renovations to the buildings, and used his position to promote learning.

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Richard Bentley is credited by the British mathematician Rouse Ball with starting the first written examinations in the West in 1702, all those prior to this being oral in nature.

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The fellows amended their petition and added a charge of Richard Bentley's having committed 54 breaches of the statutes.

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Richard Bentley appealed directly to the Crown, and backed his application with a dedication of his Horace to the lord treasurer.

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The college statutes required the sentence to be executed by the vice-master Richard Walker, who was a friend of Bentley and refused to act.

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In 1716, in a letter to William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Bentley announced his plan to prepare a critical edition of the New Testament.

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Richard Bentley used manuscripts: 51,54,60,113,440,507, and 508.

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Richard Bentley's Terence is more important than his Horace; next to the Phalaris, this most determined his reputation.

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Richard Bentley's Paradise Lost, suggested by Queen Caroline, has been criticised as the weakest of his work.

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Richard Bentley suggested that the poet John Milton had employed both an amanuensis and an editor, who were responsible for clerical errors and interpolations, but it is unclear whether Bentley believed his own position.

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Richard Bentley never published his planned edition of Homer, but some of his manuscript and marginal notes are held by Trinity College.

39.

But, James Henry Monk, Richard Bentley's biographer, charged him with an indecorum of which he was not guilty.

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Richard Bentley seemed to inspire mixed feelings of admiration and repugnance.

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In 1701, Richard Bentley married Joanna, daughter of Sir John Bernard, 2nd Baronet of Brampton, Huntingdonshire.

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Richard Bentley bequeathed a few Greek manuscripts, brought from Mount Athos, to the Trinity College library and the remainder of his books and papers to his nephew Richard Bentley, a fellow of Trinity.

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At his own death in 1786, the younger Richard Bentley left the papers to the Trinity College library.

44.

Richard Bentley inaugurated a new era of the art of criticism.

45.

Richard Bentley defeated his academic adversaries in the Phalaris controversy.

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46.

Richard Bentley's learning and original views seem to have been developed before 1700.