Jeremy Bentham

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Standard Name: Bentham, Jeremy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Leigh Hunt
While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH received as visitors Maria Edgeworth , William Hazlitt , Jeremy Bentham ,...
Friends, Associates Sarah Austin
John Austin was a pupil of Bentham , and intimate with all the friends of his master.
Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888, 2 vols.
vii
They had met well before his marriage.
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
29
At first he completely embraced Bentham's philosophies and political...
Friends, Associates John Stuart Mill
He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham through his father. He also associated with John Austin and George Grote .
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
38, 51
Family and Intimate relationships Lucie Duff Gordon
John Austin , Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
14
A pupil of Jeremy Bentham , he held a number of positions relating to jurisprudence throughout his...
Family and Intimate relationships Bessie Rayner Parkes
Joseph Parkes , Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about...
Education Florence Nightingale
Florence received a liberal education from her father.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
She studied Latin, Greek, Italian, French, German, history, composition, and philosophy. Her reading materials included Sarah Trimmer 's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a New and General...
Education Sarah Austin
During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
22
He provided her...
Education John Stuart Mill
JSM 's father oversaw his extraordinary education, using Jeremy Bentham , author of An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, and his Utilitarian theories as a guide. JSM could read ancient Greek...
Education Fredrika Bremer
After FB became a published author, in the early 1830s, she embarked on an ambitious programme of reading, drawing on books in several languages. Her English friend Frances Lewin helped her in studying James Mill
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

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