BENTLEY, JOSEPH CLAYTON. _b._ Bradford, Yorkshire 1809; a landscape painter; went to London 1832; exhibited landscapes chiefly views in Yorkshire at Royal Academy and other exhibitions; a line engraver; executed many plates for publications of Messrs. Fisher and Messrs. Virtue especially for the _Gems of European Art 2 vols._ 1847; some of his best works are in the Vernon Gallery at the National Gallery. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 9 Oct. 1851. BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). _b._ Oct. 1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry Colburn 1829–32; started _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1837; founded with George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called _Young England_ Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started with John Douglas Cook _Bentley’s Quarterly Review_ 1859 of which only 4 numbers appeared; published _Standard Novels_ 127 volumes the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000; publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 10 Sep. 1871. _Graphic iv_, 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_. BENTLEY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1785; ed. at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812 to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to 1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the _Concio de puero Jesu of Erasmus_ 1816; author of _Excerpta Historica_ 1831; indexed _Nichols’s Literary anecdotes_ and _Surtees’s History of Durham_. _d._ Croydon 13 April 1868. _G.M. i_, 127 (1868). BENTLEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; ed. at St. Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. _d._ Colfe lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877. BENTON, MARY (_dau. of Ralph Lodge_). _b._ Raby Moor house near Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (_m._ John Benton of Longnewton, butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many years. _d._ Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. _I.L.N. xviii_, 324 (1851), _portrait_. BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (_4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea_). Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec. 1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general for Queensland 1880. _d._ on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25 Dec. 1880. BERE, MONTAGU BAKER. _b._ 15 July 1798; barrister L.I. 21 June 1825; commissioner of Court of bankruptcy at Leeds 21 Oct. 1842 to 1844 and at Exeter 1844 to death. _d._ Barley near Exeter 13 Dec. 1858.