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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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Miscellaneous Accessions
 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Miscellaneous Accessions
 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library
 File

Letters etc. relating to the Drainage of the Fens of Cambridgeshire, and the Navigation of the River Cam, 1775 - 1794

 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: 1775 - 1794
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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Two-letter class: western post-medieval manuscripts / Mm
 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / James Bentham: Papers / 'Notitia Ecclesiae Eliensis, vols 1-16
 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).
Found in: Cambridge University Library / Miscellaneous Accessions

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