BENTHAM, GEORGE. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 1795; captain 16 Sep. 1816; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare. _d._ Barton fields, Canterbury 24 Feb. 1862. BENTHAM, GEORGE (_2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect 1757–1831_). _b._ Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon. sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist 1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of _Outlines of a new system of logic_ 1827 which set forth for the first time doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; _Handbook of the British flora_ 1858, _2 vols._ 1865; _Flora Hong-Kongensis_ 1861; _Flora Australiensis 7 vols._ 1863–78; author with Sir Joseph Hooker of _Genera Plantarum_, _6 parts in 3 vols._ 1862–83 which marks an epoch in botany. _d._ 25 Wilton place, London 10 Sep. 1884. _Nature xxx_, 539–43 (1884); _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait_. BENTINCK, ADOLPHE BARON VON. Secretary of legation for the Netherlands at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna successively; councillor of the legation in London 7 years; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. in London 25 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ 26 Eaton sq. London 2 March 1868 aged 70. BENTINCK, ARTHUR CAVENDISH. _b._ 9 May 1819; ensign 84 Foot 2 Nov. 1838; lieut. col. 7 Dragoon guards 8 Dec. 1854 and 4 Dragoon guards 30 Aug. 1859 to 30 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Thomas’s hotel, 25 Berkely sq. London 11 Dec. 1877. BENTINCK, CHARLES ANTHONY FERDINAND. _b._ 4 March 1792; ensign Coldstream guards 16 Nov. 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 25 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel 12 Foot 14 April 1857 to death; L.G. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Bergheim in principality of Waldeck 28 Oct. 1864. BENTINCK, SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (_youngest son of Major general John Charles Bentinck 1763–1833_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1796; ensign Coldstream guards 25 March 1813, lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1851 to 20 June 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; commanded the brigade of Guards in the Crimea 22 Feb. to 8 Nov. 1854 and the fourth division 1 June to 10 Oct. 1855; colonel 28 Foot 11 Oct. 1854 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; groom in waiting to the Queen Nov. 1859 to June 1867; general 8 Dec. 1867. _d._ 35 Grosvenor st. London 29 Sep. 1878.