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Bentham, James, 1709-1794 (antiquary and Church of England clergyman)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1709 - 1794

Biography

James Bentham (1709-94), antiquary and Church of England clergyman, was educated at Ely grammar school (c.1718-1726) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1727-31). Bentham was ordained priest on 20 May 1733. He became vicar of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, in 1733, a living which he resigned in 1736 in favour of a minor canonry at Ely, which henceforth remained his home, despite later preferments in Norfolk and Bedfordshire. Bentham died at Ely on 17 November 1794, aged eighty-five, and was buried in Ely Cathedral on 22 November.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

 Fonds

James Bentham: Correspondence to Edward Bentham, Edmund Keene, and John Warren, 1770-1784

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/96-99
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1770-1784
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

James Bentham: Letter to Marquess Townshend, 1792

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/100
Scope and Contents

With printed proposals for publishing James Bentham's portrait

Dates: 1792
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

James Bentham, Letters etc. relating to the Drainage of the Fens of Cambridgeshire, and the Navigation of the River Cam, 1778 - 1788

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Mm.06.39
Scope and Contents In the handwriting of the Rev. James Bentham, Canon of Ely and Historian of the Cathedral, who died in 1794. 1. f. 1 b. Copy of a Letter from the clerk of 'the Committee against Tunnage,' to the Conservators of the Cam, asking them to appoint their surveyor to attend a Committee of the H. of Commons to answer questions concerning the navigation from Clay Hithe to Cambridge. Dated 15 Feb. 1777. 2. f. 1 b. Copy of 'an Advertisement printed in the Cambridge Journal of Saturday, Feb....
Dates: 1778 - 1788
Conditions Governing Access: From the Collection: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

James Bentham: Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2944-2962
Scope and Contents

Notes and extracts on the history of Ely Cathedral, letter book and collection of transcripts.

Dates: 1756-1789 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

'Notitia Ecclesiae Eliensis, vol. 1', 1756 (Circa)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.2944
Scope and Contents

fos 169v-175r: index. fo. 1 (loose): list of sources. On verso of fragment of loose leaf, containing on recto a printed advertisement of lectures by John George Wood FSA, inside front cover: notes on Ely Chapel. inside back cover: 'The Index examined for names of chancellors etc., Se. 26 1815.'

Dates: 1756 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Thomas Gray: Letter to James Bentham, 1765

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/563
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

Dates: 1765
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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